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Review of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909

Review of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909

In the Land of the Grasshopper Song is, hands down, my favorite book, and I have often wished the authors had written more. I found it in a bookstore in Eureka over twenty years ago on a trip that took me through the Klamath River area. At that time I was beginning work on a novel. The power, quiet wisdom, and tolerance of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song inspired my manuscript and, I believe,…

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Firebird

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she falls in love and danger comes soon enough,

magic is inescapable, glowing mythical bird…

the shades enter, white scenes form the evil dream,

firebird comes, many varieties of plumage between her broken heart

rescues her with its ancient story,

the power of her tender heart in danger

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You Can Constantly Be Invited

You can constantly be invited to be what you are.                                                                             

                                                                               Ralph Waldo Emerson

  You can constantly be invited to be what you are.

You can be the tender wolf who fights to the death

to defend the wild child.  You can be the golden girl.

You can be…

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My Heart is at the Window

My Heart is at the Window

 My heart is at the window.

I lean with longing on the sill.

I am at the edge of expectation,

Waiting, waiting

to see the future form, the grace

I have wished for, the humble steps

of hope, the whirlwind ready to kiss my cheek.

My heart is at the window,

I have been here so long,

the horizon has been hidden by the leaves’ ornamentation, by pages of years, by my too small courage.

My heart is at…

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seduction

seduction

1. immerse into bad character

2. tell, lie, don’t inform

3. draw near just to hear whatever

4. slow down

(the mind works in pictures as

one looks through this lattice partition,

courtesans seated in a row

The floating world, the ornamented night)

5. transform as principal, commitment

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7 Minutes: Wolf is Your Shadow

How do you hold innocence, when the wolf is your shadow?

Hungry and wild, poisoned pawed, but calling you to run toward your honest self?

How can your tongue not lap at the blood of the rabbit, find the sweet snap of bone so enticing?

What is in your belly but the embryo of the haunted child, the small furred one who lost the true language

of foraging, the deep blue trust of the noon sky, and the…

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Galaxy Girl

There is a question next to her, a small dog’s face,

loyalty to what she carries, a cluster in the sky.

She is a new constelation lead by nebula light.  ‘

Shy girl hiding her face beneath stars, exposed with her large naval,

the crook of her arm,  I believe she would carry me

to the dimensions of dreams, through the night as minutes pass.

Call her Midnight and be done.

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7 Minutes: Poem For Tomorrow

My body is a prism of tomorrow’s dappled light,

holy ghosts are hunting, their guns so glorious bright.

We take the ache we forged in the waters of our birth,

the explosions of our spirit, the suicide of dreams,

the radiance of failure, cast breaths that fail to breathe,

the half-life of lover’s whispers, the political machine.

Our bodies swim in swirling light, and half an age away,

sapphire…

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