Poetry
maskihky words/medicine words
kayâsago, a long, long time ago / kistêsinâw Our Elder Brother / kî-pimohtêw walked and walked kî-pimohtêw / kî-pimohtêw the world into being / leaving pathways for us to follow / but...
Words under vertigo
like a falling debris from a construction site / slowly committing suicide as it touches / the ground, again I looked up / / to witness how words magnetized the tongue...
Soraya
1. / / Excluding pork, shellfish, milk, and rattan, / we rationalize tanagers tanning in the tonga, / Soraya, tam tam rousing gravid tamagotchi. / I collect utility knives vaccinating me...
Confession
“I live” / used to say / having no way / stood in front of “i” / pointing the gun — which the shooting was by / right to the heart / pushed the...
The world is a bad, bad place:
The world is a bad, bad place / / And I know / Oh, I would know! / / Born backwards / big on my birthday / crawled cringing to...
Elsipogtog #7
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...
“All Aboard!”
At dawn, when the ship seemed steady below me, its flamed helm pointing us west, I would take my rare strolls between Cancer and Capricorn, starboard, to watch the peril of my...
Laying Hands
I learned to love your devil’s touch, / Bruised my knees to match my skin, / It was safety felt within your clutch, / Or the clutch that safely took me in,...
the camp at musina
she sat for two days, waiting / for officials to acknowledge her. / reporters found her first, / told her story to the world. / / watch her wait in squalid...