Leslie Marmon Silko – Oct 21, Iyengar Level II & I

In Hawaii, everyone is Ohana, Family. People, plants, animals, rocks, reefs, the wind, the rain…all are Ohana. The world would be a better place if we humans, weren’t so certain that we are the center of the universe…

THE TIME WE CLIMBED SNAKE MOUNTAIN

Seeing good places

for my hands

I grab the warm parts of the cliff

and I feel the mountain as I climb.

Somewhere around here

yellow spotted snake is sleeping on his rock

in the sun.

So

please, I tell them

watch out,

don't step on the spotted yellow snake

he lives here.

The mountain is his.