Dreaming Portals

 
Dreaming Portals

Strong indian tobacco.
Shamans’ visions…
  entoptic eyesight blurs,
     diamond sliding rattlesnakes,
        spoke radiating circles
          and morphing wombs in mazes.
Shamans’ visions…
   paint on pale stone canvas,
    blood-red, clay white and charcoal
      illusion memories
        inside dreaming portals.
Shamans’ visions…
  shape-shifter bighorn sheep 
    incised on blue-black basalt cliffs
     with granite hammerstones.
 Shamans’ visions…
   time-space suspended
     through eras of earth spinning
        spell cast in holy spaces…sacred places.

Bonnie Marshall