Coalition  by Kevin Peterson

Pixie

 

She walks in

courage,

cunning,

and strength –

head high,

chest out,

a pixie of the

lot

abandoned to Nature’s grasp –

Nature always gets

Hers back.

 

Owl perches on her head,

giving her sight into

places where others are blind –

it is as magic

as she –

pixie of the

lot

abandoned to Nature.

 

Her fox medicine

leads the way –

integration

of city

and not city –

she adapts

to any space;

as at home amongst

graffiti’d walls

as forests,

she is the

pixie of the

lot

abandoned

to Nature.

 

And,

to complete

the coalition

of the

funky

girl-child

psyche,

is Bear medicine:

introspection,

mother-wit,

the wisdom of the ancestors

that will keep her

safe here

in this world

between the worlds

of concrete

and

sapling.

 

She strides,

proudly,

wildly,

assured of her place

as

pixie of the

lot

abandoned to Nature.

(c) R. L. Elke 2016