How many trains a day,
triple green Burlington and Northern locomotives.
By the stockyards.,
heavy moth-flakes fall
roads are icing up.
Cherokee woman behind the counter
smokes a drooping cigar
at the fireworks store,
near where the truckers stop,
to pick up dancing girls.
"Who did Gilcrease think he was?
hiring Indian artists, to carve only for him."
Artifact, art,
the beaded moccasins of a young girl
hang on the museum wall, beside
her father's scalp
stretched into the shade,
for a lamp.
fiction is so brief.
Where are the buffalo?
Where are the Cheyenne?
