Festival of Artemis- Ancient goddess protector of wildlife and forest
12 February
Little by little
roads eat away the hearts of mountains.
Fires burn through, come back in huckleberries,
trails close in August, too many bears.
Too many bears, now following avalanche chutes,
glacier lily, early spring.
Caribou in old growth spruce,
lichen,
banks of snow and fog.
Bear tracks in the mud.
Treat each bear as the last bear.
Each wolf as the last, each caribou.
Each track the last track,
Gone spoor. Gone scat.
There are no more deer trails,
no more flyways.
Treat each animal as sacred,
each minute our last.
Ghost hooves. Ghost skulls.
Death rattles and
dry bones.
Each bear walking alone
in warm night air.
-Gary Lawless
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Thank you for taking your innate Violet Fire within
to embrace Unconditional Love for our
Planetary Mother;
thus transmuting the wasted, low vibrational darkness
to a New Dawn on Earth.
Namaste,
BG