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When the Old Man Spreads His Brushlong agobefore the crucifixion of nanabush misshipeshu swam the lake in sleek algaeic green his clawed webbed acahk feet cut waves into water while the relatives made offerings long ago before the little people forsook the relatives and retreated into the long sleep burdened by the white winter's frost they filled the forest their acorn feet their pineneedle hands and mica songs gone now hiding, maybe waiting, maybe like misshipeshu choked under the white winter's frost nanabush - demi-god , trickster figure (Cree) acahk - star, soul, spirit (Cree) misshipeshu - water spirit (Ojibway) |
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Issue #24, December, 2001 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.