Wednesday, August 7, 2024

When She Became a Star

It is a historic day cloaked in black velvet

moving across the landscape in a hearse

she is covered in white daisies

wild Native men chant and blow smoke

from peace pipes and renegade cowboys

sit on horses in the distance

it's no big deal

just a twenty mile canyon

We can take this in one night with a pig bladder full of peyote

Come on now, there's plenty of stars in the sky

She'll just become one of them.

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