Return of the Buffalo
Robert A. Davies: In Timber, cows and buffalo together in a fenced-in field the buffalo a bit small sheared like sheep – they are called beefalo.
Return of the Buffalo
Nearing Timber, cows and buffalo
together in a fenced-in field
the buffalo a bit small
sheared like sheep –
they are called beefalo.
It isn't so long ago
that an Indian and her daughter
lived between the river and the depot.
Buffalo never roamed here
the Atful'ati tribe a hill away,
some entering the forest below
on vision quests
or passing through to the Coast.
The Atfulati disappeared.
Burial Stones
All over Christiandom
houses have been firmly placed
on Jewish headstones.
Even today there are some
whose muscular Jesus
exhorts them to kill Islam --
Jews who bury in tunnels
people whose homes they have taken --
Muslims who behead
or stone to death the unholy.
The Beautiful Bride
“The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man.”
report from 2 rabbi Zionists who visited Palestine before the taking of that land
And then her family's house was taken
the would-be lover settling there.
At first what seemed necessity
became a decision
“to protect the Homeland”
settlement after settlement:
uprooted olive grove, home
family broken, beautiful bride.
At last he had his bride.
A voice within thundered, Shame!
Robert A. Davies
