Reader's Journal: From The Wishing Bone Cycle

All the warm nights
sleep in moonlight

keep letting it
go into you

do this
all your life

do this
you will shine outward
in old age

the moon will think
you are
the moon


- Swampy Cree
Gathered and translated by Howard A. Norman

in Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day, edited by the marvelous J. Ruth Gendler (p. 30)