Medicine, Solace

I know the Bear. watcher, courage unpredict(ability) I know the Snake. wisdom of initiation I know the Wolf. I know a pack of 'em. loyalty, intuition I know the Spider, though I pretend I don't. shadows, communication I know the Owl, or, I pretend I do. insight, clairvoyance I even know the Fox. (I may be the Fox.) cunning, hidden messenger I know the Bobcat, the Alligator. patience, revenge and other far-off Beings, lost to this space, but not lost on me, not lost to me. I know the Bat. secrets, longevity I know the Cougar. So well that I call her, not by her first name but, the First Peoples' names: I call her Catamount/Painter/Puma/ I call her Panther/Mountain Screamer/ I call her Amigo da Onça foresight, leadership silence, patience I know the Coyote, the Crane. ingenuity and folly; vigilance and independence I know the Heron, the Lynx. self-reliance, balance guardian, listener, guide And each of these, each Medicine each is prayed for and each preys on each arrives from some inchoate world (land? sky?) beyond all sight. An answered wish, a plea, a demand. And each, a predator. One who wrings life from flesh that it might deliver its song, its dance of Medicine to one so foolish as me. and yet the Hawk, I see today, though predator, is the Medicine of Solitude. Near enough, Far enough. Alone enough, apart enough. a lone Alone. Hawk Arc Lofted. Lifted. Hawk. Medicine. Alone among... Denadagohvyu