D. C. Bianchino is a poet from the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He is a visionary as well as an inventor. Some of his visions are threaded throughout this work, "Seven Crows," the title of which also came from a vision.

One of his inventions is a pipe that lights from the bottom, currently being manufactured by native Wendats in northern Canada. They have given him a position of honor with Black Elk, who gave us an account of the sacred pipe, and Guy Siwii, who kept the pipe tradition alive in the East. The Wendat see this pipe as a chance for reconnection as it is symbolic of a new direction that conveys a message that it is not too late to turn ourselves around.

I fell in love

with the moon

as it took my heart

when with my eyes

I saw it full

as it came to rise,

I fell in love.