Green Linden Press

Massacre Cave

two silhouettes fly
preserve their caskets
in manmade ledges
ants on ear lobe
tunnel gently through
living rock
junction at the hip of
white houses
pale fortresses
flying survivors silhouette
canyon face

like spiders
climb victims
downward

Tyler Mitchell is a Diné writer from Tsaile, Arizona. He attained his MFA in Creative Writing. at Northern Arizona University. Tyler is the editor of Salina Bookshelf, Inc. and is a member of the Saad Bee Hózhǫ́ Diné Writers’ Collective. He currently writes out of Flagstaff, Arizona.