history
is made of
change
Talking Sticks
the insects path
tell
the woodland’s story
Boarded Up
what mysteries
and whose histories
are stored inside?
Topography
here it is recorded
every nuance
of each day
Emergence
the past
arises
from the ice
Account of the Past
history’s
story written
in bricks
Dwelling
the old barn
is history’s house
home of every season’s work
History
the pinecone
elucidates the pine tree
on how things came to be
Foothold
the ancient ones
leave their footprints
above and below the land.
Wisdom
The gnarled tree
holds the history and tells the story
of the woods.
Listen closely.
Legacy
Way out back in the shanty shack
tools rust and cobwebs gather
waiting for you to find your history.
Journey
Time
You no longer tell time by new rings.
Now as a beam, you measure time
by the nights and days of shelter you provide,
absorbing laughter and tears into your fibers and history.