The Killer

Carefully my knife drills your soul
Listen whatever-your-name-is
One of the wolf people
Listen I’ll grind your saliva into the earth
Listen I’ll cover your bones with black flint
Listen I’ll cover your bones with feathers
Listen I’ll cover your bones with rock
Because you’re going where it’s empty
Listen the black earth will hide you, will
Find you a black hut
Out where it’s dark, in that country
Listen I’m bringing a box for your bones
A black box
A grave with black pebbles
Listen your soul’s spilling out
Listen it’s blue

By Jerome Rothenberg after A’yunini, Claire Goll’s French version and James Mooney’s [1891] English version. Found on UbuWeb

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Chief Killer by Elbridge Ayer Burbank – Original publication: 1899, U.S.A

source: http://www.harvard-diggins.org/Burbank/Prints/print_A-10_Chief_Chief_Killer.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28018590