it came quietly like the stir of a breeze the floating of a lost down feather the way the sun slips over the edge of the dawn the change the shift like the quiet minute on a clock but the change was not quiet it resounded Wounded Knee Alcatraz Pt. Conception Resounded with names Banks Means Peltier Butler Bellacourt Trudell so many Strong Men Strong Women Strong Voices And the change was heard Quiet you say twenty years later Quiet It's the change the shift Listen for it In the North In the East In the South In the West Hear it in the voices of the Children of the Old Ones Protecting the Ancestors Protecting the Future quietly like the stir of a breeze the floating of a lost down feather the way the sun slips over the edge of the dawn the change the shift like the quiet minute on a clock The clock ticks away and change is with us
Nokwisa Yona - Jody Peiffer Willett 06/17/97
Bring LEONARD Home!