And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:05:29 -0600 From: Nokwisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lies in wait i heard the rattle like bones in a box the kind that they've kept our peoples remains in all this time the rattle of lies untruths becomes a thunderous noise in my ears in my dreams but its only a rattle a rattle like too much talk in a nervous encounter click-clacking of tongues loud discordant music to drown out deception but it lies waiting not a clatter but surround sound a noise like a thousand thunders truth cannot be kept in a box in a plastic realm or wood or within the minds the hearts its territory is boundless like its voice it runs like a million rivers singing in unison with the stars humming in chorus the truth is there always loudly hidden at times but there sometimes buried neath more lives and deaths than one could imagine but it remains behind backs marked with not sunlit yellow streaks but with chill to the spine answers it lingers waiting behind cryptic words and hidden double meanings it sits biding its time to burst forth one day in a song that will split the sky and the hearts of some and the rattle will be gone and the weary shall at long find rest nokwisa�1999 -- Jody Peiffer Willett - Nokwisa Yona Contributing Editor Minorities Job Bank/Native American Village http://minorities-jb.com/native.htm &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
