ebbing tides muted shadows sketched in sand a sculpted archive of footprints and wind crashing ocean’s hypnotic slow motion rolling onto the beach rushing white froth washing forth and back renewing the smoothness with salty scrubbing bubbles the setting full moon shines bright projecting her power’s peak reflecting horizontal streaks of crackling blue electricity rippling and running riding atop the cresting waves pounding surf as conduit completing the circuit on shore empowering the Ancients' resurrection in the rising midnight mists mirage-like vaporous images charge clearly visible beneath her sweeping silvery veil buckskin **** cloths, eagle claws and feathers indigenous people stepping rhythmically in a circle feint sounds of chanting and a drum-like heart beat a dance for the ages seeking favor and protection rituals and ceremonies keeping the wolves at bay celebrating the crows’ return or a bountiful harvest as they have for millennia when the moon falls over earth’s edge the dancers dissipate retreating like sand ***** awaiting the next full moon.