denali –

twisted ridges far below me

crease the Earth with Upheaval – the

plane banks steeply

and I can see rivers

and creeks

snaking through bluegreen valleys

polychrome mountains

breaking the Sky the pilot

steers upward

and out below the cloud cheating

death – this is the

home of Amorak, Spirit of

the Wolf, our unspoken

Covenant a revelation of Nature

and Surety – We will

protect the land on which

we are Custodian, caretaker to

the Coyote and the Eagle

the valley

of the Moose – We

are shareholders of this Earth our

Cousins of the land and

air our brothers and sisters

joined in common purpose,

Our totem-Truths

vast and inlaid with words of

Shamans here

in Arctic ice the salmon coursing

copper rivers --

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