The Wonder of a Place
"Lyricized" prose from Yi-Tu Fuan's Passing Strange and Wonderful. The chorus is derived from a Black Elk interview given in 1931:
Fill this sacred place
With a light amid the glade
But before we know it
We will see it in the shade
Earliest awareness
Through the mother’s beating heart
Seek an ancient comfort
From the spirit in the art
Black is for the west
Where the thunder beings live
White is for the north
The cleansing of the wind
Red is for the east
Behold the morning star
Yellow for the south
The summer and the power
We enter the uncanny
We fill it with our fears
When the window opens
The mirror disappears
A voice decays and fades
The richness of a space
The texture, sound, and sight
Is the wonder of a place
