Come dance in ease

Sand pushes out
Beneath black boots
That dig deep
Moving on
Forward with a searching song
Calling Jesus Mohammad Sitting Bull
Buddha and the Devil himself
Forward through the Christmas
Teddy Bear and Cane Cholla
As Prickly Pear needles
Scratch the blue jean
Between knees and heel
Saguaros in a row
Saguaros individual
Stand surrendered
With arms bent high
Above the flowered barrels
Pin cushioned all around
Sharp side sticking out
Below them hares dash about
Until one stands still
Unmoved as if caught by a light
That radiates red
Through long skinned ears
Under a fern green tree
By the burnt orange hill
Where a pile of small stone lay
Created by some unseen hand
So on with the knitted shawl
On with a bit of smoke and fire
On with the dance with a rattle
Around the small tower
One sacred name is mentioned
Come dance in ease… tranquility
In all that’s seen
A crow arrives cawing
As a silent hawk dances in too
Wings stretched out wide
Low together they circle
Like the eagle and condor soar high
And as the birds fly away
The stones are used as a seat
Voices of ancestors then speak
But do not show their faces
Even as a Navaho flute is played
First from the wind
Then from dry lips
Hums out of Sacred Mystery
From the center of our being
Hums too into Sacred Mystery
All around then straight down ending up
Way past any snow white mountain top

P.S. Dance danced and poem written within day pictures (above and below) were taken.