Lineage

                  Lineage

With her back to the wind of a Minnesota prairie 

she gave birth to her firstborn and named him White Wolf. 

White for the blanket of snow that surrounded them, Wolf

for the wail that pierced the night when he took his first breath.

His mother’s body gave him warmth, her breast nourishment 

for health, and from that bleakness White Wolf became the man 

everyone forgot until a great-great-grandson traced

his lineage to White Wolf’s father—Back-to-the-Wind.

Today, in our Father’s Holy Temple we seal the three

of them that they may live together joyfully again.

                    —Donnell Hunter

                            25 May 2012