song.

i found you amidst the green

the long grass around you and the dropping vines

and your eyes too were clean

and i took you and with my hands i fed you

with the food which i had made 

to call you from yourself and to me

you ate and you listened to the song

following with long steps back

through the trees and grass

and i brought you to the circle of my home

with each red fire glowing by the door

showing you the space that was left

you took your hands and dug

pulling up in great strokes the earth

and packed it into straight lines

you built for me a house 

standing with it done before me

covered in the dirt of your labour

and you were brown all over

with the streaks of earth 

against your skin like cloth

i brought the coals still warm

from the house of my mother

and placed them in the heart of the house

you fed them wood 

new wood from your hand

and then it was done

then it was begun