Jordan River, BC 15/17
scents of the First People
before primeval FLOOD
when the immediacy is removed
soft gull chatter
interacts
with crickets
danger low tide
and rise to flee
this place a hidden flow to outsider eyes
and sacred to people of the SEAFOAM
Pacheedaht
and
Ditidaht
and the stone and boulders
unsheathed
sing
to sunset wreaths
and Fishfolk eye the SHORE as homeland lost
eager beach and smoke of sails
HUMANOIDS
become first settlers