Sunday, 27 February 2011

63 days: Blanket # 58: rest















THE ROCK
Fragment of a Ritual | Omaha


unmoved
from time without
end
you rest
there in the midst of the paths
in the midst of the winds
you rest
covered with the droppings of birds
grass growing from your feet
your head decked with the down of birds
you rest
in the midst of the winds
you wait
Aged one


Adapted from Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, "The Omaha Tribe", in Twenty-seventh Annual BAE Report, Washington, D.C., 1911


Blanket # 58:
  • time
  • rocks
  • rest

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