the innocent prophecies - 6 - peacemaker

—the imagination of a verdant landscape in the memory of dissevered existence——beneath soaring eastern white pines, a red house sits in shadow——to the people of the longhouse, the pinus strobus is the tree of peace, its bundles of five needles the symbol of five nations joined as one——the great peacemaker is the prophet, blinding separation with a clarion of light greater than the sun—