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The Old Woman and the Canal

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American Indian flute, percussion, voice: Student of Rhythm

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On the banks of the canal,
no other mortal eyes to see
save birds and thunderclouds,
There you stripped to the skin
and swam in the water alone.
It covered you up to your chin,
hiding your young form from my mind’s eye
as the clouds rolled in.

Awestruck, you listened to the thunder,
nothing between you and the water.
You told me generations later.
I had not yet been born then,
nor had you daughters, nor sons.

I saw fields of the oil crops growing.
Glowing gold in the fields of your home,
under clouds that watched me like yours watched you:
their great-granddaughters
whose summer showers fall on the canals,
the melt of last winter’s snows.

Your words bathed me in the same water,
senses present with no obstruction.
And my blood runs through canals,
the waters of Earth now flow in my veins:
beauty and danger.

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from Trebizond, released January 27, 2023

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