Meditating Upon A Mesa -Canyon de Chelly
Posted on May 13th, 2007
by 
Shodo
Shodo
the massacres occurred
down in the canyon
so many Navajo
killed in the
caves by the
Spanish and
then came
the calvary
until finally
Manuelito
and his people
were starved
out their crops
destroyed
by Kit
Carson's
scorched
earth policy
determined
to wipe out
any trace
of the one
true race
of Americans
forcing them
to endure
the senseless
suffering of
the long walk
to Fort Sumner
from which
many never
returned
David Shodo Portolano
Easter Sunday, 2004
Access: Public
poetry
August 2008 