Coda: Deferences: responding to Rifkin

 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.

Coda: Deferences: responding to Rifkin

Missing collectivities
we mirror
skeleton economics* pg 182
Afraid.

Temporal tongues
demand audience
geography be DAMNED!
Gathering is survivance

Else
[worn out
detextured
circle deformed into cog]

So light medicines
learn silences

[shame
sha me
has me
ash me
a mesh
she ma

Not my letters
not my words
A "normal" without tommorrow]

So light medicines
and learn silences.

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* pg 182