Bison 

Big bull,
Standing strong,
On bald windswept,
Prairie in wintry March,
Big bull,
Dressed in his winter coat,
Nose pushed,
Down to the frozen ground,
Clipping short left overs,
Chewing micro bits and pieces,
Remnants of humdrum summer,
Big bull,
Watchful ancestors,
Built this continent,
Created this country,
After an ice age,
Ten thousand years,
Big bulls foraging,
Fat cows grazing,
Rambunctious calves gamboling,
Year after prairie year,
Grazing short grass,
Gardening across Eden's plain,
Cropping tall grass,
Building rich top soil,
Fifteen feet of copious black,
Loam worth more than oil,
Relating prayers over centuries,
Respecting prairie life,
Respectful of the sun,
Respectful of the rain,
Respectful of the winter snow,
Respectful of spring run-off,
Repeating prayers to the Creator,
Respectful stonecircles circumnavigating mother earth,
Big bull,
Such primal majesty,
All his cows ripe with life,
Feeding newborn calves,
Feeding mother earth,
Replenishing soil,
Replenishing grass,
Replenishing renewable resource,
Worth more than oil,
Worth more than oil,
Worth more than oil,
Big bull,
Thundering across the patient prairie,
Herds full of natural resource,
Deep pools of black oil,
Far beneath the grassy surface,
Where crude oil belongs,
Earth manifesting great oily pools of sacred ballast,
Lightning circumventing the ancient world,
White Buffalo Calf Woman bringing the pipe,
Sacredness walking the sacred earth,
Balancing grass and buffalo,
Ionizing sacred nature,
Agonizing over nature's destruction,
Conscripting meadow larks and prairie dogs,
Singing life into being,
Bringing dreams into ventures,
Big bull,
Wandering primordial songlines,
Watching each regenerative sun rise,
Witnessing every redeeming sun set,
Waning like the repetitive moon,
Rationality on the brink of destruction,
Sober God granting gracious life,
Symmetrical obstruction linking,
Inking equilateral destruction,
Blink sympathetic restructuring,
Big bull,
Pawing for millenia through ice and snow,
Cured sustenance from frozen earth,
Merciless wind whipping,
Tearing wispy strips,
Slashing the top off the land,
Big bull,
Thundering bulls, cows and calves,
Such a rich and blessed vision,
Worth more than crude oil,
Worth more than fractured oil,
Worth more than spilled oil,
Wakantanka told me so,
Millions of bison wandering sacred land.