Wondering At The Wonder Of Themselves

Diana Temple
Brahma Temple / Zoroaster Temple
Buddha Temple
Tower of Set
Sockdolager Rapid / Hance Rapid
Kokopelli
inner gorge outside Bright Angel Canyon
outside Red Canyon
pilgrims approaching Turquoise Canyon

Richard and Mimi Farina **: Children of Darkness

Our Father who art in heaven
Stay there
And we'll stay here on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty
With its mysteries of New York
And its mysteries of Paris
At least as good
as that of the Trinity
With its little canal at Ourcq
Its great wall of China
Its river at Morlaix
Its candy canes
With its Pacific Ocean
And its two basins
in the Tuileries
With its good children
and bad people

With all the wonders
of the world
Which are here
Simply on the earth
Offered to everyone
Strewn about
Wondering at the wonder
of themselves
And daring not avow it
As a naked pretty girl
dares not show herself
With the world's
outrageous misfortunes
Which are legion
With legionaries
With torturers
With the masters of this world
The masters with their priests
their traitors and their troops

With the seasons
With the years
With the pretty girls
and with the old bastards
With the straw of misery
rotting in the steel of cannons.

--Jacques Prévert
Pater Noster

**Raven Girl

**A Swallow Song