"I've no particular religion but since I was a child, I have had special feelings to the land. I recall as a child sitting on a hill and feeling connected to a place. So when I'm at a site, the feeling of the site, the land, the earth, the eternal, is there." Jeanie Marion, historian and author
mesa verde
the summer was over at the flea
i was so burnd out i almost drank my paint thinnr
but the crows wouldnt let me
everytime i was ready to throw in the towel
one of the dark birds would land on my shed
and something would wake inside of me
of course birds dont talk
and i didnt see some sort of magic symbol
but i did know
it was time to head into the desert
foto by dreamr
from wikipedia
Mesa Verde, Spanish for "green table", rises high above the surrounding country. For 750 years, the Ancestral Puebloans occupied the area within the park. From the hundreds of dwellings that remain, archeologists have compiled one of the most significant chapters in the story of prehistoric America. If you are able to leave your modern self behind and think only in the past, you may be able to understand and enjoy a fascinating story of life in earlier times.
Dreamr
sayd lets stay atop the green mesa
where the view is far and the storys close
and so we did
and that nite as we looked at the sunset
we could sea shiprock
almost 100 miles away
Lightning
we took a long walk
on the only road at mesa verde that nite
it was late and very dark
when a car came whizzing up to us
it stopped and a window rolled down
a nice older man
with a heavy mustache and a heavy set craggy face
sayd
"you folks know there are bears and bobcats out here dont ya?"
we turned around and walkd back after that
reminded that the bears will
eat you
At Night
the pueblo indians
or Anasazis
ground corn and other grains
at the spruce house
this kiva
at the spruce house
was small and personal
and you could sea the sipapu
"the earth mother navel"
clearly from atop
foto by dreamr
the Anasazis disappeard from
mesa verde many years ago
but its hard not to sea
faces in these windows
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