Vignette 15.
Have I lost my mojo?
I guess that’s not what you want to hear
from a Hawk spirit-guide.
You may have heard
how I rescued
Sapana
forced into marriage
by porcupine-man.
Buzzard and I caught her
as she pulled up
a really big wild turnip
tumbled
through the hole in the soil
down to earth
from the sky-world.
Then there was Waupee,
White Hawk.
I was his spirit-guide
helped him ascend to the sky
to capture his son and his wife
youngest daughter of Star Chief.
When Waupee arrived
in the land of Star Chief,
he did not choose animal parts
such as paws and tails
which turned their bearers into
animals that ran away.
Neither did he choose a wing and
transform into a bird.
I gave him a white feather.
He descended safely
with his wife and son.
But I digress.
My powers are spent.
You must sing to your wife
to capture her
from the sky-world.
No feather
no wide-seeing eye
no message from the spirit-world.
Just your song
and her.
Liluye, Singing Hawk While Soaring
