Snoqualmie Song

  “Snoqualmie: The name means people

  who came from the moon.”

  —Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest

1

In winter

the stones mate, rain

comes down like horses.

You circle the slow bank of sleep

like a snake sliding out,

weird silence

your song of pleasure.

Little streams

of dreams

fall to their senses

and become the forked fingers

of time.

2

People from the moon

tied their horses to clouds

and during night the horses

pulled the clouds

to earth.

3

You come to a field

of green feelings where horses graze.

A river flows where flowers wait to open.

The world rolls like a heavy stone

from the cave of your heart.