WORLD VOICES

THE LANGUAGE RAVEN GAVE US
  BY JOHN E. SMELCER


Contents

Home
Introduction

About the Author
Creation Myth
Playing Hide-and-Seek
    with Raven

The Indian Prophet
On Feet of Clouds
Song of the Rain
Prayer Singer
Zen Raven
A Sufficient Wisdom
Loonsong
Raven's Trans-Species
    Love Song

Squirrel Man
Muskrat Woman
Mountain Smoke

World Voices Home

The Literary Explorer
Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol





ON FEET OF CLOUDS



A cloud arrives
quiet and gray
as the wolf
hunting field mice
in the frosted meadow
outside my cabin door.





YANLAEY KAE



Yanlaey łunatatez'aan
ghaetl' 'eł baa
k'e tikaani
c'ukatezyaa dluuni
yii cen zogh
'an hwnax hwdatnetaani.