The Well

If they were poets

dipping for words

and not water, it

would be like this:

the helping.

They would come

bearing obsidian jars.

Form a human chain.

Lovingly carry their

words ceremoniously

back to their villages.

They would pour

out their poems,

words linked like

their hands. Water

for survival.




© Gayle M. Petty


A Statue: Howell Gallery, NM



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