the Uncles are bird spirits now (draft)the Uncles are bird spirits now flying thru realms tricksters, so obvious in their choices even an MFA grad could figure it out: Milt, the raven spirit/shaman and Al, the blue heron yer poems foretold this time after time Milt cawing angrily at the stoopid humans. Al, more sanguine, more grounded, more multi-dimensional; heron lives in & on water/earth/air while Milt loves to fly & curse us/ still these are only 2 of the incarnations you love to fool us with now : ) Uncles, so many days you visit us flying, laughing free in the spirit world which only poets & shaman can begin to comprehend yes, we earth incarnate yearn to fly with your flocks raven, heron in & above or swimming with awkward turtle strokes sun basking in A-burgh's millpond turtles, the two of you ... & Al, that bat trick was a gas at yer wake my poet friends often transform before my stoned eyes ... yes, Jim D. chooses heron as does John B. while Larwill is now the new raven king but, but the sun shines so brightly thru your new kingdoms the water is transparent as these words heron zazen stalks while turtle meditates all are deeply carved into the 'teaching rocks' at Petroglyphs Park we would miss you except you visit so often you are almost as annoying in the next world as you were in this one : ) peace\ Chris/cricket/owl - Chris Faiers (September 2009) |