Sacagawea's Cemetery
Fort Washakie, Wyoming













There is wild beauty,
and a sense of community,
even in the afterlife.
Pale grasshoppers sail across the dusty paths.
Clouds soften the summer daylight,
and a persistent wind
rattles the leaves
of a break of tall trees,
the whisper of music and dance,
of times not so long past.
The fluttering poetry
of ribbons and flowers
and plastic toys
on mounds of raw earth
bear witness to
bonds among the dead and the living.