Fire

 Fire

a woman can’t survive

by her own breath

alone

she must know

the voices of mountains

she must recognize

the foreverness of blue sky

she must flow

with the elusive

bodies

of night wind women

who will take her into

her own self

look at me

I am not a separate woman

I am a continuance

of blue sky

I am the throat

of the sandia mountains

a night wind woman

who burns

with every breath

she takes

by Joy Harjo

photo via {Yellowstone}

Sunset over the Yellowstone Revealed Lighted Teepees: Resiliency of the People by Pretty Shield Foundation and Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council in collaboration with Mountain Time Arts in Gardiner, Montana. One part of the celebration of the historic and continued presence of Indigenous people in the Yellowstone region alongside Yellowstone’s 150th. Thank you sincerely, Mountain Time Arts. The teepees will be up through 8/27.