Fountaindale Public Library

Pictograph, Poems

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Pictograph

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Poems

If you want the earth as it really is," N. Scott Momaday writes, learn it through its sacred places." With this quote as her guiding light, Melissa Kwasny traveled to the ancient pictograph and petroglyph sites around her rural Montana home. The poems in this collection emerge from these visits and capture the natural world she encounters around the sacred art, filling it with new, personal meaning: brief glimpses of starlight through the trees become a reminder of the impermanence of life, the controlled burn of a forest a sign of the changes associated with aging. Unlike traditional nature

I; Outside the Little Cave Spot; Pictograph: Avalanche Mouth; Pictograph: The Red Deer Place; The Shaman's Cave; Chickadees and their Allies; The Sentience of Rocks; Being Quartz; Pictograph: Possible Shield-Bearing Figure; Pictograph: Hellgate Canyon; Pictograph: Star Being Cave; Cave System; Petroglyph: Bird With Speech Symbol; Pictograph: Bizarre Anthropomorph, Often With Interior Body Decorations; Pictograph: Interior Body Decorations; My First Ermine; Pictograph: Bird Site, Maze District; Pictograph: Shielf with Lunar Eclipse; The Cloud Exercise; My Pictograph; Lost PictographIIPetroglyph: The Blue Hare; The Crux of Weather Changing; You Wake Claiming There are Eight Kinds of Light; The Spectrum; A Talk of Windows; Sign with Convergent Nested Elements; What Starlight Has Become In the Moving Trees; Hospice; The Heron Rookery; Kayak; The Ross Giant Cedars; Counting the Senses; Low Tide Pictograph, Made of Seaweed, with Headdress, Dancing; Geography; The Emerging Field of Image Theory; The Wounded Bird; Moon of the Visible Nests; Frosted Marsh; The Bridge; Crossing the Winter Dream; Translation; Moving Pictograph: Parenthetical Signs of Spring; IIIThe Missouri BreaksTraveling Petroglyphs: Eagle Creek; Madison Buffalo Jump; Pictograph: The Falling Buffalo; The Ground, Which is Only Heavy Wind; The Difference Between Loneliness and Solitude; Petroglyph: The Hoofprint Tradition; The Black Calf; Eagle Tree; Thunderbird; Thunder Egg; The Phenomenology of Fire; Past Life with Woolly Mammoth; Powder River Battlefield; Questioning the Dead; What Does Calm Say; Petroglyph: Castle Gardens; Rockslide; Invisible Petroglyph

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