When I was small and stayed quiet

some animals came

new ones each time

and waited there near me

and all night they were eating the black

they knew me they knew me

nobody saw them

I watched how they watched me

they waited right there

nobody heard them talking laughing

laughing

Laugh they told me nobody will hear

and we went out one time

onto one mountain

all the way and nobody knew we went

we went together we sounded like chewing

the next day the mountain was gone

we went out onto two mountains

we made no noise

no more noise than smoke

nobody saw us far away

the next day those mountains were almost gone

we went out

onto my dead grandmother’s mountain

there an old wind lives

that’s never been away

it lives on and on there alone

but the mountain’s gone

and some of us

never came back all the way