Bullcart

Bullcart

Dr Abe V Rotor

Author's children, Ann and Matt pose in an empty bullcart 

near their ancestral home, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur, circa 1992. 

They wait for the buffalo

that pulls the cart

as I search the fields,

cross the rivers,

gaze over the hill,

onto the prairies of old,

repeating the call

that reverberates

over the plains

where a great

civilization perished.

What will I tell my children

now that the buffaloes are gone?

In time they'll understand. ~

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods 1995, Megabooks