Wind Protector, by Daniel Brown

Wind Protector, by Lisa Winika (USA) 2021

Wind Protector
 
Cousins
these spirits, old 
Wendigo the ash gray
creature of native terror and 
childhood 
fear who hunts in nighttimes darkest
haunts, and Wind Protector
caretaker of 
moonlight
running
as a spirit
faster than mere movement,
legend of peace in the making
loving 
and fatherly born from midwives
hewn hands and the forests
hand me downs, swift,
hushed,
only
ears feel his great
mystery as hidden
animals with green nocturnal
vision, 
housed within knotted secret 
underbrush, faintly hear
his circling rush 
of breath,
beyond
day, healing is 
on dark night paths, quiet
redemption among algae and
decay, 
his wide windswept arms reach for what
he can't stop to embrace,
rooted, anchored
in place. 

Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown is a retired Special Education teacher. His poems include a variety of styles and subjects from Haiku to poems about music, art and social issues. Daniel’s work has been published in Chronogram, Jerry Jazz Musician And Mightier: Poets For Social Justice among others. He reads his poetry from time to time on his YouTube channel “Poetry From Shooks Pond” and is working on his first collection Family Portraits in Verse. He lives in Red Hook, New York.