07-20-2017, 05:27 PM
A long way back, two sisters
coming home for a bunya nut ceremony
stopped to rest by a waterhole.
A baby was born.
The smell of blood woke
the snake who lived there.
This was his totem place.
He rose, and the plains flooded .
The sisters waited out the flood
on a rise. The snake reared up and
swallowed their camp: sisters, baby, and fire.
He swam back to the bottom of the
billabong, but fire burned inside him.
Bellowing with pain he fled, making a trail
that filled up, and became a river.
He spewed his stomach empty.
When the waters dried, the sisters
woke up, and set out again
with their baby, for their homeland.
https://flic.kr/p/3ciRAd
coming home for a bunya nut ceremony
stopped to rest by a waterhole.
A baby was born.
The smell of blood woke
the snake who lived there.
This was his totem place.
He rose, and the plains flooded .
The sisters waited out the flood
on a rise. The snake reared up and
swallowed their camp: sisters, baby, and fire.
He swam back to the bottom of the
billabong, but fire burned inside him.
Bellowing with pain he fled, making a trail
that filled up, and became a river.
He spewed his stomach empty.
When the waters dried, the sisters
woke up, and set out again
with their baby, for their homeland.
https://flic.kr/p/3ciRAd