Do I need better resolution on
my phone camera
if my quarry is a moment not an object?
The Cheyenne and Arapaho
had no cameras
when they were slaughtered at Sand Creek,
but I was able to document
a couple of the moments I was
there
using my crappy old Samsung.
Some of the massacred Cheyenne and Arapaho
(or pieces of them) are still
lying in that shaded earth.
Not clear if it was hundreds or more than a thousand,
because we have poor resolution on our historical
perspective. Remember the
Alamo!
we holler, as we trample
all memory of the Cheyenne and Arapaho
beneath our sandal soles,
camera resolution good enough to hide any moment.
We don’t need no stinking cameras
to forget those Cheyenne and Arapaho.
