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A challenging collection, so powerful that I had to read it in small doses. Mohawk/Tuscarora poet Janet Rogers addresses the relationships between #Indigenous peoples and settlers in Canada. To get a feel for her performance style, check her out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCh83pq7ew&sns=em

my medicine
is a bear
coming out
of hibernation
into new seasons
of equinox celebrations
bonfires and firecrackers
sparklers and lanterns
birthday cakes
with a hundred candles
burning
my medicine

Striking page design.

I love the playful use of text positioning in this #poetry collection. Also the way my expectations are shaken into awareness by seeing the poems alternate black-on-white and white-on-black pages.

there is no equality a fallacy taught to you & me so we keep our dreams tamed the aim is not to strive to be equal but to be the best perhaps superior to another there is no equal only the best we all can be we live in this commitment a tangible energy action behaviour we confuse the land beneath us with our titles & make believe no equality without rights for all no rights for all not without my say so for me when I am free you look free to me