Cognitive revolution :
The chambered self
Scans through the window ;  the tribe waxes
Stratified :
Hand spans in red ochre and the spirited quadrupeds ;

Paleolithic flutes chant
In bullroar drone,
Picasso bulls and equine splendor
—communion .
Spastic shadows dance in the limestone jaws acoustical :

The mystical rivers wait,
The cave teeth drip,
The anteroom priest flows through dreamtime
Artistry .
In a mammoth tusk emerges the dawnlight of beauty

Impressed in miniature,
Exquisitely
Streamlined from the bulbous Great Mother .
Animal
Spirits connect the Bushmen to Pithecus savanna,

Patchy with umbrella trees,
The ground clawed tight ;
Pollen escapes grassfire smoke skyward :
Dispersal .
Wrathful sirens wail over waves, the ruins in moonlight :

The Minoan labyrinth
Housing the bull
Under flapping sails | with longitude,
Golden thread
Out of darkness :   the taurine jump over the cratered moon .

Bronze–Age warrior culture of
Linear B
Immortalized in Homeric hymn,
Frankincense—
Anointed from stony Arabian navigation—

Geographic destiny,
Bacchanalian
Desert gardens watered by cisterns,
\ oasis / .
Towers look toward heaven, the plazas toward the king :

Architecture constructed
Hierarchical .
Time-capsule art reveals lost cultures
After sand
Buries or jungles strangle the structures quelling nature .

Pyramids and hieroglyphs,
War in the words
Of codices on the mayan steps
Poly–chromed
For Quetzalcoatl to rise over each new kingdom .

Sometimes the artisans
Leave monuments
Bleak, and walk back into the forest,
Ingested
By the bestial wilderness where the sun sets early .

*[ WSB ]_.