THANKS BE TO THE MAPLE

THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT MARCH

It's followed by April.  Or St. Patrick's Day is always a fun way to celebrate the middle
of the month.  But out there in the woods, on the hills, sap is rising in the maple trees.

 

                                    THANKS BE TO THE MAPLE

Toward the end of February when the sap begins to run the maple trees the women of the society of the dead chant songs accompanied by the water drum  to satisfy the dead who trouble dreams if their wishes are unsatisfied. The songs were revealed to a good hunter who was buried beneath a maple tree. 

 This was when trees could still speak and we knew how to listen

Give thanks to the maple for the gift.  Drop the boiled juice in the snow .  The sweet kiss of the maple. 

                        in the darkest month

                        in the silent woods –

                        water sound