Déjà Vu
by Rebecca Violet White
A different climate change
one that happened before
one when
ice melted and then
quern corn cattle
We found the bones in peat
in our own time
bones worn
where women had rocked back and forth
shoulders hips feet
Un-piecing the stone cairns
skeletons under lab light
note the
back, forth, quern on quern
grind grinding ground
Ten thousand years worth of change
and the sound
the sound
of women rocking and
ice melt noise
The thought of the yellow sun
on the faces of fields
on faces
only just existing
trees forests felled
A new world opening
a new word
women rock
some of us are still rocking
feeling the change of the weather
in our bones.