Growing in the ditches of greed: Responding to Rifkin – Chp 3

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.

Growing in the ditches of greed: Responding to Rifkin – Chp 3

Duration Dense
Perversity
Existence
Persistence
Economic stasis* 

“Trust us”
Permanent record
-anomaly-
Failed “to develop”
Cause I aint no dry snitch

Silence
Ground deep
Emotional truth
Snotty nose
Strategy stories

Tongues
Reckon with possible paths
Mathematical necessity
Temporally sovereign
When we live OUR ways
Sense make
Together
Discern
Red paths
Faint
In days of pain.

"Disabled”
Stretched
By multiplicities
Cheeze grater world
Blooded –
No finger prints
Horizon dancer
Body a garden
Growing in the ditches of greed.

Data Bear Gathering 24 – as the skies darken for a storm that was intense and brought clouds only seen a few times before.

* pg 100 “Not yet doing something”