The Kiowas Reckoned Their Stature By The

I Wonder If, In The Dark Night Of The Sea, The Octopus Dreams Of Me.

My Line Of Vision Was Such That The Creature Filled The Moon Like A Fossil. It Had Gone There, I Thought, To Live And Die, For There, Of All Places, Was Its Small Definition Made Whole And Eternal

The Kiowas Reckoned Their Stature By The Distance They Could See.

I Am Interested In The Way That We Look At A Given Landscape And Take Possession Of It In Our Blood And Brain. None Of Us Lives Apart From The Land Entirely; Such An Isolation Is Unimaginable. If We Are To Realize And Maintain Our Humanity, We Must Come To A Moral Comprehension Of Earth And Air As It Is Perceived In The Long Turn Of Seasons And Of Years.

The Highest Human Purpose Is Always To Reinvent And Celebrate The Sacred.