Poem:
My journey on this earth in this life is marked by a path of red earth that leads from the mounds at Ocmulgee in what is now known as Georgia, to The Battle of Horsehoe Bend site at a curve in the Talapoosa River in now-Alabama, to the Mvskoke Creek Nation in now-Oklahoma , to the grounds of Indian school in now-New Mexico, and since that collection has taken me to the red earth of O’ahu. It makes a distinct path. It is the color of blood, it is the color of a collection of stars, it is the color of life, of breath. And, as anything in life that is a vital part of us, it needs to be fed with songs, poems”
Themes:
blurring the binaries
humxn/nature
humxn/space/universe
humxn/elements
as she explores
trauma, racial & gender violence, mental health, illness, drinking, healing wounds, love
Poem: Fire
"a woman can’t survive
by her own breath
alone
she must know the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow with the elusive
bodies
of night winds
who will take her
into herself
look at me
i am not a separate woman
i am the continuance
of blue sky
i am the throat
of the mountains
a night wind who burns
with every breath
she takes"
Creative Writing Exercise
use three words u receive to create short story or poem
-explore boundaries of the body/nature, humxn/animal, humxn/space, humxn/nature
~pre