White Man’s Village
Your glass towers steal the sky
Your iron roads hide the hills
Everywhere your lodges stand.
Always your voice speaks.
You have defeated me
I am not defeated
My wife pinches my ear
Because I am drunk.
I do not forget my grandfather
I make a shadow by his light.
Peter Ahrens
April 2004
Nexial Quest (c) Pete Ahrens 1999 - 2011