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





LOONSONG



While packing firewood
I come upon a small lake
and loonsong.

Flowers blossom,
a pika calls from rock.

Suddenly there is a noise,
loon dives into the water
and I am alone again.




DADZENI 'DLIIS



Tsets daghael
sii ben deltaan
'eł dadzeni 'dliis.

C'et'aan 'unetniigi,
K'agi delk'ac.

C'isnatse dakuditniis,
dadzeni ts'elbae tuu
sii sedze'.