Reading Rifkin: Begins

As part of my explorations of the space of experiential research and policy making I trying different ways to respond to academic text. This poem is part of a series that is responding to ""Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination" by Mark Rifkin.

Reading Rifkin: Begins

Consternation?
Temporal aberration?
Quotidian tales
Float in silence
Healing cacophony
Doing it our way
Dreamed pathways
Making room
Ancestors join
Sink
Sync
Ghost ridden
Haunted skins
Lost it all
-Only savage left –
False neutralities
That pretend raw
Is “the modern way”

Gangster Granny
Ladders don’t get you high!
Temporal indignities?
All them layers!
You gotta count
But I know.

Temporal Drag Queen
Hybrid monster
Teller of un-intentional truths
“Survivance is our time”

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