Young Bear, Ray A

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University of Montana

CutBank Volume 1 Issue 5 CutBank 5 Article 23 Fall 1975 Like a Coiled Wire Ray A. Young Bear Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Young Bear, Ray A. (1975) "Like a Coiled Wire," CutBank: Vol. 1 : Iss. 5 , Article 23. Available at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank/vol1/iss5/23 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in CutBank by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. Ray A. Young BearLIKE A COILED WIREi am  sitting in a hallway ahead of me i feel the sound of my legs brushing against each other th rough the stiff new pantslike a coiled wire i am walking through friends and  relativeswe each had to tell each other that we d idn’t belong to be far away from home away from the idea of what we should bein this hallway i woke up into a fog wearing brightly colored clothes and i found myself againeven then i couldn’t believe the presence of m ountainsand when after three days had gone into my life i decided to walk to the m ountainsi kept walking over and  coming upon hills and rows and rows of houses70and the white rocks on their roofs finally made me realize that  the m ountains  were too fari thought to myself they’re going to take that away from me tootrying to fill the empty spaces in my mind i became the train i rode onracing through dark  tunnels gently asleepmy body still believing itself to be home because of the way the birds sing and tha t  echo telling me this has to be home

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