Villanelle for Stronghold Table and Daydream

Villanelle for Stronghold Table and Daydream

(Tim Board) “Prairie dogs call through the murmuring grass,/mimicking history—its rhythmic drum beats—/and resurrecting Wodziwob’s sacred chants.” Villanelle for Stronghold Table Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. South Dakota.   In this place in the sun, the grasshoppers dance among black heads of sunflowers, dead in the field, and the wind resurrects the Paiute chants   of the prophet Wovoka and the last Ghost Dance. Their whispering voices live o…