Slow Smoke/Indian Love Song

by Lew Sarett

VERMILION

 

Blackfeet Reservation
Shoshone National Forest
Red Lake Reservation
Absaroka Range
Thumb Ranger Station,
Wyoming

INDIAN LOVE SONG

Cold sky and frozen starThat look upon me from afar Know my echoed grief.

Hollow night and black butteHear my melancholy flute— Oh, sound of falling leaf.

Homeless wind and waterfallHold a sadness in their call, A sorrow I have known.

Shivering wolf and lonely loonCry my sorrow to the moon— O heavy heart . . . O stone!