Ocean's Breath Plateau ⩸ ukigiyummiktuk ⩸

THE SIXTH SONG

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when kukutux lifted her head from the sand, her sea girl was not there. the waves lapped in soft sound and velvet surf, rolling along the shoreline.

the death ulaq was quiet, a short mound of shadow in the long dark.

moonwoman's mouth was dry, her eyes throbbed with the pain of unending tears. pulling herself upright, the duck reached out for lynx in a jagged sob.

lynx had never left.


once you mourned your own hope. it was fulfilled many times over.

but now i mourn a daughter, came the answering inner cry, a transparent shriek in her own ears.

you mourned a son. you mourn a daughter. and you have given life to many, many more.

she will never see the face of her children, and now kukutux fell forward gently upon the pale sand, and cried for the new babes suckled by their aunt and not at the breast of the one who had borne them. she wept for the little one who would be borne to sedna on the arms of love.

and when her lamentations had abated, kukutux cast her voice out into the air.

we ask for healing

the bright leaves and the rich earth do not change

we shed our sorrow

i will weave it into a wrap for your shoulders

carry it to the dancing lights

you have our love

you have our love

twice sung to the darkening waves of the sea, and then silence, one broken by the mother's ceaseless keening.