Praise the first handprint
on this rock wall canvas.
The stick-figure goddess
lifts her arms for rain.
Swift journeys follow
the hunt across a river.
A serpent hisses light—
holds the sun in its mouth.
Here by long cold ashes
a broken bone needle
rests with a length of gut
and flint shards.
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