From Dancing Moons, 1995, by Nancy Wood
Spirit Brothers
We are all one.
The human and the hummingbird
The wild horse and the weasel
The house cat and the red-tailed hawk
The buffalo and the dog
The coyote and the cottontail.
The human spirit and the animal spirit
Grow from a common root
of understanding.
Human dreams and animal dreams
Share the limitless horizon
of our precious mother earth.
The human spirit and the animal spirit
Join where the circle of the sky
meets the circle of the earth.
In this sacred space lies the meaning of the universe.
The meaning of the universe is nothing more
than the appearance of dew on a leaf or
the dance of light on water, even
the conversation between two dogs or
the way a hummingbird flies.