Colors of the Comanche Nation Flag

Red

Mupits’ breath, in moonlight, outside a child’s bedroom window

Hunter’s bones scattered on the prairie

Fragrance of Comanche gangstas who entered The Zoo Club

and assassinated the bosses of Underworld Seven,

a Navajo crime syndicate

Little Stoney Burgess’s footprints after catching ghost sickness

by running through Post Oak Cemetery chased

by snot-nosed bully, Blender Plenty Bear

Blue

Lips of the poisoned tribal chairman collapsed on the buffet table

at the 1974 Comanche Nation Inaugural Dinner

Silk handkerchief drawn over the stuffed owl used to converse

with the dead

In the woods, it’s the laughter of Deer Woman as she stomps

her male victim to death

Electric guitar distortion of the Messiah playing Jimi Hendrix’s

Machine Gun as she strolls into the Indian bar

Yellow

Coyote’s eyes in the darkness of the backseat at midnight

as you speed down Mt. Scott, on a dare, with the headlights off

Crushed buffalo kidney stones used in graffiti to magically

imprison the river-witch underneath the I-44 bridge

Intricate beadwork on Lucifer’s cane

left at the funnel cake stand at Comanche Fair

Flashing ignition light to the engines of the great abyss

Source: Velroy and the Madischie Mafia (West End Press, 2009)