Whatever Man Makes

Whatever man makes and makes it live
lives because of the life put into it.

A yard of India muslin is alive with Hindu life.

And a Navajo woman, weaving her rug in the pattern of her dream
must run the pattern out in a little break at the end
so that her soul can come out, back to her.

But in the odd pattern, like snake-marks on the sand
it leaves its trail.