day falls away to dusk twilight and still you resist standing still ogitchidaa’ikawe warrior woman jingle dress dancer hand drummer flag carrier smudge smudger pray-ers pray for continued life in the east in the East and in the land aki mashkikimakwe mother Our Mother the Earth goes in circles this cycle of abuse we are in and out of moving our bodies left and zag, up and right, zig and down, in and out of a foreign square dance we’ve somehow made our own a square dance we’ve made our own? no.
Street traffic headlights spotlight Nogojiwanong dancing round four push-ups for Mi’kmagi life Mi’kmaq life Mi’kmagi life Mi’kmaq life. eya.
