To enter this world was to step into, not out of, the real world.
- Selwyn Dewendy, The Sacred Scrolls of Southern Qjibway
So I must stand away from the stone to enter the stone,
to dream the idea of the stone, the stone which is all stones,
_______ the first and final stone,
its source being, its manitou.
As in puberty I dreamed my lifelong protector, who showed me
how to navigate impossible rivers, who made me as the world's
________first person, breathing
fire and poetry.
The strangers who divided the world into good & evil were wrong.
The Great Lynx Misshipeshu who dwells beneath ambivalent water
________is both benevolent
lord, and devil.
And I am become the powerful dreamer who dreams his way through
to reality, to enter and ignite the stone, to illumine
________from withing
its perfect paradox, its name.
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