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". . . history is a dream already dreamt and destroyed."
John Hawkes: Second Skin

From Wonder

There were horses before steamships / ridge to ridge galloping & vast unfathomed canyons colored turquoise / magenta / burgundy / ochre...
& mountains yearning...
                                    Camp to compound
                                                                  stenciled to sky //

Before the first tent-stake before gunpowder before cholera before plague
Beaver & Buffalo / sweet water & Sturgeon galore /

Before wheel-ruts & syphilis, smallpox & tuberculosis / Guinea Hen & Elk thick as plains grass /

Before scythe & sickle & hoe / before cistern & sewer / before & before & before what came next . . .

Rivers ran ahead under the weight of what they could not tell & Antelope too & Cougar & Deer . . .