Cigar store Indian
standing by the door,

fringed buckskin beaded
breastplate overblouse,

Dakota Gold barefoot
on the sand floor,

ropin' the rattler,
outta the tumbleweeds

flies a sage grouse,
hard-on, Dakota Gold's peach beads,

fringe-dripping crotch
for Kawliga Ballou,

that Indian woman who
shoots firebrand ammo

held in her trade-bead harness
strapped around her black thong,

smoke clears from Kawliga Ballou's
peyote, sage, and sweetgrass bong,

there is no part of Kawliga Ballou's
canyon which Dakota Gold has not explored,

the first time she set eyes on Kawliga Ballou,
she remembers Kawliga's words of few,

"A year scarcely suffices to see it all, you
cannot see Kawliga Ballou in one view."

Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist, brainchild of Sage Sweetwater Creative Properties, flagship of Stone Creek Woman