Blue Ravens. Gerald Vizenor

her paws at the feet of the trader. Ghost Moth sat directly at the side of the trader. He raised his head in the shadows and bayed with the music.

       The last rose of summer

       Left blooming alone.

      Odysseus told stories about the creation of the melody and then recounted the story of the great opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini who sang “The Last Rose of Summer” two years earlier on Christmas Eve on the streets of San Francisco, California. He remembered the night was bright and

      clear.

      The trader recounted the great San Francisco earthquake, on April 18, 1906, as a personal experience. He must have read the news reports in the Tomahawk that more than three thousand people died from the earthquake and fire. He created a sense of natural presence in stories, more memorable than newspaper accounts, but he never experienced the earthquake or the actual outside concert by Luisa Tetrazzini.