He dreams thousands of years
and they connect to the center

he told me once he went through
through the center of the earth
and on the other side 
he met himself
and others 
from thousands of years
dark hair
coarse
dark eyes
wisdom heavy
dark skin
ancient embodied

they spoke in a language he said he only
re-members in his dreams 

upon waking
he asks to tend to the altar
to give thanks to the ones before
who are here now
and walk before us
splitting time 
so that we
might take histories
and make them our own