those wild western heroes: 1

(dedicated to Dee Brown's The Westerners)

children of the sun

seeking seven cities of gold

behind a half-naked black man

in colorful head feather .

 ambassador Esteban he was

 with a pair of greyhounds running beside

and three hundred Mexican Indian servants, many handsome young women

with Mendoza and Coronado right behind

the obliteration

oh dear poor zunis at hawikuh pueblo

what could you have done

the cleansing had begun

we are all forgotten ones