Monday, October 26, 2009

Fourth Portrait of Fire by Lorna Dee Cervantes


I am away from the knowledge
of animal mystics,
brujas and sorcerers
or the nudging chants
of a Tlingit Kachina.
I am frightened by regions
with wills of their own,
but when my people
die in the snow
I wonder
did the depths billow up
to reach them?

Going from magic to death. This woman;s poetry just confuses me and I would love to analyze it one day.

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