Phoebe Farris

Buddhist Monks, Longest Walk II, Washington, DC

"The Newly Created World

Pleasant it looked,
this newly created world.
Along the entire length and breadth
of the earth, our grandmother,
extended the green reflection
of her covering
and the escaping odors
were pleasant to inhale."

(Winnebago)

Published in: In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian
Poems and Ritual Orations, edited by John Bierhorst,
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, New York, 1971.