Wood Floor Dreams
A setting of Cheyenne poet Lance Henson.
Instrumentation: SATB
Duration: 3 min.
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Wood Floor Dreams
1
i have come upon the visage again
of crows at four flying across the
winter moon
of wolves watching shadows on the flowing dark
of faces brushing the older trees
2
i sit near the vacuum of sleep
i run with my kin to the snow forest where
words rest as from a long journey
3
somewhere turning in the river
of winter
these few
with their lives
sing in the rush
of water over smooth stones
leaving their names
on our mantles
at waking
Lance Henson, 1975
Voices of the Rainbow (Seaver Books)