Basketweaver of Ahwahnee by Daniel Williams

(hikah.molt.pok.su)

for Totuya


Your naked feet unaware
Flex in time with the work
Of your hands

Quick brown hands
Fleet as deer upon
Wicker hillsides

They too browse bracken
Bunchgrass redbud
Willow

They too move like wind
Selecting that which moves
Gently on water

Choose that which will bend
To lessons of
Your fingers

Will come to be richly woven
Words of ancient ones
Spoken in you

Through the mouths
Of your baskets