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1. Ruchazie Moon
2. Wild Neighbours
3. Nothing to be Concerned With
4. Ruchazie Blue
5. Sterrheid Senryu (sequence)
6. City Senryu (sequence)
7. I’ve One More Thing to Say to You
8. A Short Love Poem
9. Another Short Love Poem
10. Jeanette
11. Eve
12. Tonight
13. Cathy
14. On a Skye Littoral (sequence)
15. A Short Journey
16. Lamb: Stillborn
17. Snow (sequence)
18. Colour Me Green
19. Incommunicado
20. For God & Country
21. Wovoka’s Song
22. Write Time

Wovoka's Song
Adapted from his words of protest against demands on his people from Washington

Our young men shall never work,
for those who work cannot dream,
and wisdom comes to us in dreams...

... you ask me to plough the ground:
Shall I take a knife and tear out my mother’s heart?
Then when I die she will not take me
To her bosom to rest.

You ask me to dig for stones:
Shall I rake under her skin for her bones?
Then when I die I cannot enter her body
To be born again.

You ask me to cut grass;
Make hay and be rich
Like the white man,
How dare I cut my mother’s hair?

We know the dead will come to life;
That their spirits will again come to their bodies.
It is so, and we wait
in the place of our fathers,
Ready to meet them – here
in the bosom of our Mother!

Wovoka, whose born name was Quiotze Ow, was a 1st people shaman born a Numu as part of the Paiute tribe in north Nevada. He was the creator of the second Ghost Dance.