Fireweed Woman
I Am Asintmah, the Healer, Grandmother,
My hair blowing white downy fireweed fluff.
I come seeding the world.
I come where the earth is scorched with fire.
I spread My healing blanket of snow.
Under the earth I weave.
The winter earth moves with My motions.
With My teeth I strip the fibers.
With a spider's many arms
I weave My blanket.
My crawling relations
under the earth assist Me.
Green with stripe of white, nourishing,
tender shoots of spring come budding.
I weave spring's new life into being.
I stand up and shake out My blanket!
Moose, deer, bear, coyote,
rabbit, grouse, eagle, salmon:
all My Relations blanket the earth with life.
Proud and tall
My plumes of mauve crowd together!
I wear a cloak of summer's beauty
'round My shoulders when I'm dancing.
Renewing the world,
singing life into being,
I Am Asintmah, the Healer, Grandmother,
My hair blowing white fireweed fluff.
I come re-seeding the world.
© Tamara Rasmussen 2018