to cook with
but won her with his eyes also
deep into hers
though later he would sleep
again
&
wake
this time on a narrow cliff under a mountain
"a place not wider than a deerskin"
hundreds of feet the earth
below him on all sides
were other mountains
bodies of men were lying on
alive or dead
some were skeletons from hunger
said / they had been brought there by
deceiving women
hungry picking flesh off of their bones)
&
freedom
was a spider in a dream
a web that led him
to mountaintop where crazed
with love he fucked
the woman who had deceived him
daughter of a witch
the next day in a dream who told him
her Dreamtime Being came (said)
your son-in-law must kill the Great White Beaver
go to the magic waters
with its flesh must make feast for those
who seed the whirlwind (which the boy
did a single arrow
shot
&
killed it
the magic waters rising
