This is my poem, Flint Knapping, re-recorded for better audio.

Flint Knapping

I’d like to think that I am not alone
in identifying with aspen groves
or forests filled with giant sycamores—

At times I think of the entire world
before we took to the march of progress
and cannot help but weep for something more.

Could dying to a fearsome saber tooth
while gathering blueberries and bow sticks
be the worst fate a man could face back then?

Would the toil of knapping arrow heads
while bundled up in fur and snowy huts
distract enough from the morning's failed hunt?

Would my woman and baby by the fire
warm me as much as any filled belly,
while the rabbit mocks my broken bow

with tiny hops just outside the spruce boughs
and all my best attempts at building walls?
would I then long for structures made of stone?

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