Totem

TOTEM

might of oak and heft of kin

blocks and logs carved by the din

painted teeth and lolling gazes

wombs and graves in larval mazes

fathers, uncles, siblings, lovers

babies, sages, mentors, mothers

incantations slam the air waves

pen the legends spun in dark caves

lonely, legged, crawling creatures

whittled into wood by teachers

chisel held in shaking hand

totems tower in this land

master, novice, doesn't matter

histories notch in whorls, not ladders

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