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.
Prophetic temporality: Responding to Rifkin – Chp 3
Persistent possibility
Sumac red
Don’t need chains
When roots work too.
S I L E N C E
Retexture possibilities
With hopes and continuities
Take up
Unfinished stories.
No longer
Economic migrants
In our own lands
“Rationalism”
Poisens failed.
Return immune
Regenerated
Gardens
Seeds
Visions
Witnessing
Lived knowing
Reconciled to now.
Nana Bjorn Gathering 24
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