Zodiac's Form
Setting: an outback station
Washed dry by rain
on this dry earth
under our sun,
bull's skeleton--
Zodiac's form--
on this hard earth
under our moon,
crumbles to dust.
When the sky's cloud
loudly mutters
thunder under
summer stars, there
bull's skeleton
waits for the rain
tumbling, fumbling
to coax new growth.
- Phillip Ellis 2013
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
James Marquette was born at the ancient seat,
he was very desirous of conveyingCanada and its savage tribes
on the banks of the St. Lawrence,
upon which no eye of civilized man
had ever yet looked.
At certain seasons of the year
the Indians came by hundreds,
endowed with their store-house,
and, most prominent of all,
canoes, light as bubbles,
between the two parties
of civilized and uncivilized
sins of the world.
- Phillip Ellis 2013
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