Tovli Simiryan - The Turtle Mountain Haikus

Across the prairie;
burning suns fuse horizon;
earth befriends heaven.

Sunset tucks her tongue
simmering, stoic. Green mounds
escape spring-time frost.

Silence celebrates
old women returning north;
light settles softly.

Guardian of peace;
garden of shared boundary—
touch air; paint it blue.

Old women singing,
little steps toward heaven—
like turtles hiding.



Dunseith, ND 1999

Tovli Simiryan

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