Blood Run

by Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle

• ISBN13: 9781844712663
• ISBN10: 1844712664
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Memory Wearing white mourning paint powdered from pink granite weathered light as crusted snow. For prayer, song, story-life. Laying out our world in shapings, come Cohokia. Planting three sisters-Corn, Squash, Beans- circling each mound in retrospect-dancing, drumming. Marking our bird-print presence. Buffalo marks on Pipestone Tablets, on boulder stone, on the belly of the earth, on every raised ridge, seasonal hide, come winter. Fortification? Hardly from human. Mere walls honor cyclic astral events, bring whereabouts, announce our city's welcoming-honor patrons-Puma, Thunder, Snake! Ho-Chunk, Missouria, Ioway, Otoe, Quapaw began what Omaha, Ponca, Kansa, Osage joined. The Honga. Soon Arikara, Cheyenne, Dakota as well, negotiating trade, camaraderie, or not. Millennia ago we initiated young here. Until strangeness, disease, danger encroached upon us. Ten thousand strong then, this city invoking ceremony, ceremonial chance, feasts filling significant days, nights. The winds winding each of the hundreds of hills raised, revered by man under the glory.

Table of Contents

Facing East

Construction

Council Fire

Flag of Mercy

Closer to the Moon

Ceremony

More Like Children

Holhpokunna The Garden of the Bumblebees

Mixed Blood

Mother Yakni

The Great Society

Rain Dancers

The Carpenter's Dilemmalike a full moon over a thunderhead

The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store

Turning North

Ochre Hole

Revolutionaries

The Big Woodpeckerwhen you foresee the unforeseeable

Diphthongs to Dipterons

Stepping Out

New York

Earth Life

Endangered Species

Shimmering Thread

Hyphenated Winter

University Library

Run

Water Planet

Winter Trees

I Have Some Advice For You

Facing West

The Two-Pronged Stick

Father Luak

World's Largest Rez

Journal Entry: March 23rd, Chihuahuan Desert

Am I Seeing?halito akhana hello my friend

Ballad of Kenneth Ruth

Anumpa Apesa a Iti Hikia: The Judgment of Standing Trees

Click Beetle

Life's Work: I Found the Earth in Snails

Snake Bags

We Spoke French Throughout the Desert

He Showed Them Snakesmost cynics would laugh

On the Nile

All About Wind

On That Great Plateau

A Desert Love Poem

Turning South

creator

The Story of The Seeds

No Goodbye

Anumpa Boklukfi Hilha The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

The Dogs Did Not Follow

Black Crow

The Lost Ponds

White Bone Hooks

Aiena e-Taloa We Sing Together

Meadowlark, Large Family of the Plains

Ragged Owl Nest

A Popular Theme

Bohpoli

Mobius Garden

Vegetable River

Fire and Wind

Fried Rabbit

Digging Deeper

Before Dawn

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