2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
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On the Rez: Bob Marley,<br />
William Blake & the Lakota<br />
Porcupine Singers<br />
by John Brandi<br />
Webbed electricity racketing the horizon—<br />
sandy wind, pink coral fans<br />
spread from chiseled bluffs. Prickle of stars<br />
between solitary rocks standing<br />
like men grown full.<br />
At the old Veterans Center<br />
danced with a Hopi beauty—<br />
hair falling to floor, body bending “down<br />
to the Red earth.”<br />
Woke alone, Chinle motel<br />
coffee and frybread, a flyswatter on every table<br />
National Enquirer on the counter: Sunbather<br />
Bursts into Flames<br />
Across the road: Salvation Healing,<br />
Slave Driver on tape deck.<br />
Yellow soil, further in I drive.<br />
Northern Plains Porcupine Singers<br />
doing Lakota “Sneak Up” song.<br />
Peyote tents, juniper-branch shade houses<br />
pickup trucks hugging each other<br />
in ceremonial circles—<br />
Drum chant from eight-sided<br />
east-facing Hogan. Look for camp spot—<br />
look into blue-flame-sunset Blakean eye<br />
through chrome rain shafts<br />
—shafts of Religious light<br />
every direction!<br />
88 <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Fe</strong> Literary Review
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