AYXESKA

by M.F. Nagel

In  a
Place
Of
Gold and ice
A Place of men

Ayxeska

Men that know
The madness of mountains
Mountains
That know
The madness of men.

Ayxeska

White
In
Wintered ravened night

A Silvered city

Aurora painted
Northborn
A starry Shaman
Jewel-breathed.
And
Rivers.

Rivers.
Giver of salmon
That
Wait for the  fishermen.

Full-bellied bears
Sleepwalking
In
Their
full-bellied dreams.

Dreams
Of moose
And men and mountains

Of  salmonberries.
Dreams
In the
Dens  of winter.

In a
Place
Of gold and ice

Ayxeska.