Native Spirit River Rock

Native Spirit River Rock
The old track is abandoned except for seekers
Some stalk prey, some stalk health,
Some stalk vision, some stalk autumn seed and store

The stream is a movie scroll that never rests, ever unraveling to distant seas

Messages and myths of long ago encampments
Signs and Symbols and the twins:
Consecration and Desecration
   and the illusory bridge between them
Be at once honored and despised
   and see that even desecration is a form of consecration

Leaves danced and chattered and shadows of leaves danced and chattered as autumn sun skimmed o'er horizons

Awareness of motion and instability and the possibility of death

Refreshing alertness. A place to guard the mind
The wide and swift river and the confining hillside
Symphonies of elements tell of the peaceful danger of the valley
Fish swim and live and die unseen
Their ancestors once fed our ancestors

Guard the door Ye watcher
Guard the door that leads to delusion
Don't let you in

Raven and Squirrel and Chipmunk and Blue Jay appear
The quilled one is hidden but manifests death yonder and offers medicine for the bundle

Each moment is important and offers itself to awareness
Listen to the body without falling prey to it's longing to be grasped

Indian Summer dazzles with color and newfound sky in the forest

Spirit Rocks underwater manifest stable whirlpools and whoosh waves

The swift yet patient river smooths them round grain by grain

Spirits haunt and there is awareness through caution

Let the Oakfall begin