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.