By Louis Osborne Coxe
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Duclos and Peter shot for the farther bank And hid the bark canoe under the leaves Ochre and red still. In an instant's flash He saw his Mohawk: a tall, lank man bent loosely Scooping up water in a cupped right hand But the eyes glancing blackly in swift arcs, seeing The portionless wilderness as a lookout's ocean. His hair, shaved off to a single black cockade From nape to brow, stood stiff with grease like iron, And the daubed planes of the face, red yellow and green, Mocked the dear suffering of El Greco's Christ By light and shade.
The squirrel's leap Plumps down an avalanche and stops the heart. Jay jay jay—blue-white bird and raucous call And again the silence. Should you be alone And circumspect, the life around you may Allow your presence, suffer your humble passage, While the pileated woodpecker hitching around a bole Lays his ear to the bark to hear the inward borer, 49 Then flails the wood to sounding like a gong. This is the way of urban man. This the fear Picking the inner skin, telling old terror, Reminding and remaining and more fierce Than man-made evil.
This continent was holy. Heretic men, Damned yet reaching out like oil on water, Could kill the high emprise, seal off the land From France and savage souls from Paradise. Becque said: "The savages shall take our part. Let the Abenaki be our weapons marshaled Against the English. " The Abenaki. The stolid, sullen tribes Scattered from Nova Scotia through New Brunswick Into King Philip's country, Pennacook. Becque waited for his will to take on flesh, While the governor fumbled hi his mind Its stock of greed or piety or power.