Cause you showed me better

Cause you showed me better
I can’t allow…
Hands shake
Heart thunders
Historic hurt
Pins limbs
But
I have rewoven woice
Just as you said!
But not how you forsaw?
Path taken.

“I’m a grave digger”*
Maybe walk with Wiitiigo
Or some of those
“half white, half Indian, half devil” people
So I told my truth
Cause you showed me better.

NanaBjörn Wandering 2022

*Grave Digger – Snotty Nose Rez Kids

In tongues, not yet invented

Feed them new names
Enrich each cereal
With ideas
Of philosopher futures
Prize inside!
DNA effervescence
Potions of possibility
Medicines of life
Wrap them in red
Future and past
We witness for you
We (un)learn for you
We fight for you
Word by word
Fail by fail
Each messy
“I survived last night”
A bravery
Needs name new
In tongues, not yet invented

NanaBjörn Preparing 2022

old gods

Old gods
Blood gods
Those ones
You still eat turkey for
window alter

But blood is blood
A “to do” of minor horrors

Old gods
Drag gods
New names
New faces
As the game demands
Not bound to gender
Not bound to time
Old gods
No miracles with loaves
Only hungry eyes
Flesh asunder
“No one to follow-
No one to teach.”*

NanaBjörn Preparing 2022

*Leonard Cohen “The Goal”

Self loathing is my exercise

Self loathing is my exercise
I can bench…
Well…
Not to brag
But thems big numbers
Round to the nearest…
Accountants beware

This shit
Got numbers
Or unfortunate
Dimensions
Histories
Aches

But I don’t get more stronger
Just tired
Other muscles atrophy
To streach muscles?
To learn new ways?

Pehiw W2022

earth upturned

I see earth upturned
A garden?
A grave?
A future?
A past?
You know!

This is your story

No shame

This half formed do-it-wrong-sometimes you
It is a gift thing
A tender
Spider woven story
In transformation

Pehiw W2022

You are more than lies

Twisted Metal
YOU knew
You saw this
Crucible moment
Gave me music
Love teachings
All the arms
Ancestors
Family
Circle

So dark that night
I survived
Recast a new thing
I will choose
To become
To serve
To heal
To be here
To bear witness
To share teachings
To voice truth
To hope

You are more than lies
Loss
Broken #?@&
You are medicine
You/me
Are all
Hold all
Survive all

Pehiw W 2022