Flaming Star is a 1960s Western movie starring Elvis Presley based on the book Flaming Lance (1958) by Clair Huffaker. It is said that Presley gave one of his best acting performances as the mixed-blood "Pacer Burton", Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texas rancher father. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a typical life on the Texas frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a nearby tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads. Pacer soon finds himself caught between the two worlds, part of both but belonging to neither. The soundtrack music in the film consists of only two songs, "Flaming Star" and "A Cane and A High Starched Collar." Two months after the film's premiere, RCA released the extended play single Elvis By Request - Flaming Star.

Anasazi Curse: Flaming Star

he is
cursed in
Durango, the
Anasazi spirits
have assembled,
pissed off bee hive,
foe told of a time he
would arrive, Anasazi
spirits calendar in blood
red dripping from stone of
lime,

native
pictographs
he won't come
back, 4X4 bull elk
rack, a jeep axle snap,
flaming star,

she is
a conjurer,
half-breed,
watched it all
bleed, shapeshifter
curer, possessor of
beaver four bundle, a
flaming star,

petroglyph
becomes a
community mural,
so many chant the
Anasazi curse, flaming
star, charcoal at the bottom
of the cliff, flaming star,

Anasazi forebears
make the ancestral
links manifest, Native
karma flies from the eagle's
nest, flaming star, flaming star,
flaming star...

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist