Christopher Hansard:[Jesus Walked the Prairies]

Jesus walked the Prairies in the ancient Winter nights,

Buddha went beside him holding up a light, Socrates, Aristotle, St Augustine and Karl Marx too

Zoroaster, Lao Tzu, Plato, Descarte and St.Peter running up behind

They all went walking, for walking is what they do,

In the bluster of the Wind and the rushing of the land

they paused to see a soft and beckoning hand,

to it they went and there they saw

White Buffalo Calf Woman, who with a glance said

‘Come you boys there’s no need to wander in the Night

or to carry all your burdens and hold one small light, sit until you find yourselves’

but men been men they could not, so in the rush for meaning, they hurried off again

she sighed

and said to the knowing night..

“Ah, just think that in times to come I shall give birth to every single one of them’