Alli Cat

Non-binary/30's/Cree/Metis/Disabled/Artist/Writer

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WIP

Apparently I am unable to finish one piece before starting another. This one is the three of cups art nouveau style of my partner and metamors cats.

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WIP

Trying out a bit of an Art Nouveau style. My lovely cat companions are my models and I'm liking how it's turning out so far.

I've done a fair amount art over the years of friends companion animals but really wanted something of my two boys to hang up.

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100%

I am a full person

One whole

Yet you quantify the liquid life that runs through my veins

Chop,

it,

in,

to,

bits,

searching for anyway to deny me

To say I am not enough

This percent from this place

That percent form over there

Is there enough white man to say you won.

You forget that blood does not segregate itself in my body.

It does not skip a generation.

It does not dilute the way you wish.

Every drop carries the joys of my ancestors

The stories,

Loves,

And future.

You may deny me your slips of paper in hopes our numbers dwindle

But by doing so I will merely become a stealth warrior amongst you.

Not constrained by the roles you want what you call my kind to follow.

Do not ask me "how much?"

How much of me stands with my people

How much of me will fight for them

How much will stand for the land and waters.

How much of them is in me

My answer will always be

100%

A short poem about what it feels like to be a mixed Indigenous person in a colonial world that sees "white" as the default setting.

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Red

I hope you see me

All dressed in red

I wore it just for you

In case you are…

I won't say it out loud

I still hope you come back

In hopes your led home

Your thing I still can't pack

The porch light is on

The door painted red

As it might be the colour you see

I hate the thought you might be…

They said you ran off

The police stopped searching

But I stand on the steps waiting

I haven't stopped researching

Tears in my eyes

I made sure the fence has red

The front light is on

So you can visit if you really are…

Gone