summer 2019
C WITHIN MAGAZINE
RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS Welcome Ancestors
Welcome Ancestors
forgotten artists of stones
wisdom keepers of the ages
whose strokes of crimson and ochre
whose voices whisper
live and dance still at the fire of my heart
in the desert wind
whose visions petroglyphs
whose songs surround me in the landscape of waking dreams.
are
painted
in
peculiar
on canyon canvases stretched over time.
Welcome Ancestors
Welcome Ancestors
grandmothers and grandfathers
those who have come before
whose stories are told
whose legacy lingers in libraries of stone
in cavernous volumes of limestone pages
whose spirits emerge
whose walls of wordless wisdom
in new expressions
speak a primal language of tribal truth.
of those who are yet to come. art and poetry by teressena bakens Photos Credit: Martien Bakens, BELIGHT.PHOTOGRAPHY
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