A handprint on an ancient cavern south
of France made by some Neanderthal man
spray painting the walls with paint in his mouth
not painting according to any plan
just letting you know of his existence
forty-thousand years before anyone
would find it. His primary subsistence
was on meat and he hunted with no gun,
just his bare hands and with a wooden spear
that he would throw deftly with precision
falling elk, antelope, bison, and deer
blood flowing from the point of collision.
"I was here," he says, "and I hunted these
animals through the jungles and the trees."
"Secrets" by Kenneth Larot Yamat
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