Thursday, April 11, 2019

Summer solstice

This is the alter we set up for the ancestors including dinner and some champagne.

The blue doll is an ancestor doll that Runa designed.  It has rocks in it.  Apparently through blood memory Runa knew that we needed to carry rocks with us while travelling.

The front yard where we set everything up.





THANKS FOR YOUR LETTER

After a couple of conversations about whether tattoos are a form of self harm and a lot of self reflection on this issue, I wrote this poem after receiving tattoo cream in the mail from a friend the week after my 15th tattoo as my answer on this issue.




THANKS FOR YOUR LETTER


 VERY PRECIENT

This is my Cree translation of
"nevertheless, she persisted" when
Elizabeth Warren would not be silenced. 


AS,

I

WROTE AGAIN


 


UPON THE CANVASS


OF SKIN


 


TO RECLAIM


WHAT WAS MADE FOREIGN


THROUGH LIFE

 


THIS TATTOO


A MARK

I CHOOSE.