a photograph by Sonja Bingen
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Raven
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Raven is a kicker.
He loves to have fun—
nose dives in the sky,
rides the sixty mile an hour winds,
sliding over the Santa Fe railroad
coming from California
and over highway 40
as the semis roll by.
Raven loves to make someone his joke—
sneaks up on his buddies
and scares them to death.
Smart old cuss too.
I saw him flying
with a pop can in his beak,
heading west toward Gallup.
He’ll do well.
They pay seventy cents a pound.
Filed under Ethel Mortenson Davis, Poetry
Table
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
1
I was never invited
to the table,
but had to sit outside.
I reached
for another–
whose lap
I crawled on,
whose branches
of trees
reached
out to me
with their arms.
2
Old Mother,
who heals
with the rushing
waters of spring,
the quiet white
of deep winter snows,
with the smell of leaves
breaking down
in the fall
and the bright moonlight
on warm summer nights,
Old Mother reached out to me.
3
I was never invited
to the table,
but had to sit outside,
and there
I found another
who
gathered animal spirits
beside me
on another path
in another world.
Filed under Ethel Mortenson Davis, Poetry
Rain Clouds
a photograph by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Filed under Art, Ethel Mortenson Davis, Photography
San Juan Mountains
a photograph by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Filed under Art, Ethel Mortenson Davis, Photography
