As seasoned birds drip from an iron spit,
     the Wampanoag stuff apples into deer
And Massasoit opens his quillbox
     for a cut of ottomaocke to pack his pipe.
Standing in the fields, children wait
     for crows to descend, then they mock
And flap in a dance that sends
     each flock back over the hillside.
Afterward, buzzed on the smells
      of meat and sassafras smoke,
Boys realign for snap-the-whip,
     and a servant hides a wooden doll
In a haysta