Sickle moon casts headstone shadows faintly
on the snow above the Widow Jane Mine;
pale, unmarked tablets of limestone miners
who kilned cement for the Brooklyn Bridge.
From flanking ridgelines, Great Horned Owls dual,
hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo, hoo…
spanning the little, nameless valley of the dead.
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Shongum ain't Indian,
it's Sha-WAN-gunk.