Thursday, October 5, 2023

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

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