O sister when did you become the perfect treatise on love and the sacred painted face?
When did your words divide the day from my night?
It was ninety yesterdays ago when first your verse startled my eyes speaking a language native to this ground speaking with grace with love and with a defined determination sweetened by the red clays of your home
The soul of the prairie holds you in its embrace the long vista the tornado the tempest all compete for your attention
And here I stand at the back of the line humble one hand in my pocket one holding an urgent postcard