Second Story
index:
year of the dragon
shadows
dark rider
springleaving
age
fring spever
snow
crazy horse mountain
departure
child song
song for parents
nightcapers
six love poems
potree
impossible
the river
buffalo trail
second story
sorrow
relativity
denial
lovers
mountainman
april
at needle point
the clearing
north wind
puddles
hall stairs
river crossed
autumn trees
dragonfly
meadowlark
twisting
sea endlessly
moonlit hills
finish so smooth
flower song
ackknowledgements
about Mildred Rose
For T.A.R.
NIGHT CAPERS
At night
when he thinks I'm asleep,
the Eskimo hunter climbs
down from his shelf.
With a clatter of weapon
gathering, he goes on a winter camp.
Upstairs
the polar bear rug hears him,
raises its head, snarling
and rearing threateningly.
A battle ensues.
The Inuit child in his mother's arms
is wakened - Little Warrior
chuckles at the sound of hunting.
In the morning
the mother still stares
with Mona Lisa eyes
over the head of the child
sleeping in her arms.
The hunter stands
spear forever poised
over a soapstone fishing hole.
Second Story
by Mildred A. Rose
The
Mildred Rose
Collection
Copyright 1976 by Mildred A. Rose,
all rights reserved.
Originally published by The Music House Press.
No part of this collection may be reproduced,
except in short reviews, without the
author's permission.