Diane Glancy

Weather flew across the field. Over the horizon the land tacked to a cloud. The field continued into night a far town lit.

An overland route traveled upon— leaving hoof marks and a swale on the land   cattle— bovine animals with four feet, esp. domesticated members of the genus Bos, as cows and steers Middle English catel, from Anglo-French katil, chatel personal property, from Medieval Latin capitale wealth from capitalis of the head— trail— Middle English trailen,

The message came by the carriers of doom
with books, pamphlets, primers.

They said he was seated on his throne. The wounded got up from the ground. He made them whole and it happened before our eyes. We had not seen this before though the missionaries said he would. He is a God who robs his people of what they are and want to be and makes

They come at night—
the old ones from those agency prisons and boarding schools.
They walk the sky carrying northern lights.