ancient desires
I carry ancient stories with me everywhere I go In each movement, each song I learn They find me before I even realize I am searching...
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JACQUII WITH A CUE
- Jul 26, 2022
generational wondering
I can’t remember my great-great grandmother’s name but she was the first in our lineage to have an English last name. I’ve been wondering...
- Jul 26, 2022
sweet love
I woke up and remembered the first time you saw me. The first time you touched me. I woke up and felt the tiny signs of healing with my...
- Jul 25, 2022
kissing grief
Inuit birthing tattoos have only recently returned. I’ve been on the journey for almost two years and it’s the most intimate journey but...
- Jul 25, 2022
still here
I had this theory he’d make a stronger woman out of me I held the belief we were somehow meant to be The seasons changed day by day And I...
- Jul 25, 2022
every fall
I thought of you today. I saw you in the colors of my world. It’s been a complicated season. The one that reminds me of you. The ache of...
- Jul 25, 2022
my sky in disguise
Poems on my finger tips With extra love Between the hips Down my thighs And on my back The evening lied Between us, cracked The moon hid...
- Jul 25, 2022
the fire in our hearts
The firewood was ready. All I needed to do was bring the lighter. But, I was already warm. I kept telling you that I didn’t need a fire....
- Jul 21, 2022
Distant Love
Walking around the tundra of my mind my thoughts on love are easy to find the leaves I taste and the skies I hear from a couch in the...
- Jul 21, 2022
What it means to be Native
What it means to be Native has evolved I’m rehabilitative you will recall being so derogative I have dissolved your control your...
- Jul 21, 2022
Sewn Together by Men
the pattern of male praise came in a ziplock bag I found it and it looked like the length of my legs the shape of my smile the dots on...
- Jul 21, 2022
wander woman
the individualistic freedom poured hunger into my eyes. the realm of possibility revealed in me the free-spirited heroine who once lived...
- Jul 21, 2022
Shame of Destructions
I sit to write out the revelations to start conversations on the bodily invasions of girls men use to cure sexual frustrations The two...
- Jul 21, 2022
Seagoat Sense
I dive into the deep blue ocean of who I am and I don't look back I drown in the depths of women who came before me their souls suffocate...
- Jul 21, 2022
"A Culture Almost Gone"
a little girl learns to dance one day, while her brother plays the drum. they sing the songs from yesterday, and they do it just for fun....
- Jul 21, 2022
My Markings as Prayer
For my past, present, future and nothing more or no one else I battle the war within of dysfunctional beauty and hopeful wounds the...
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