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Canku Ota
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(Many Paths)
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An Online Newsletter
Celebrating Native America
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December 1, 2009 - Volume
7 Number 12
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A Joan Kane Sampler
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This
poem won the college poetry division in the 2000 University of Alaska/Anchorage
Daily News Creative Writing Contest:
Pure/Pour/A
Priori
full
moons rays spill
a
skeleton path on water
tell
me the spell
you
held me under
simpler
to undo
than
the first split steps
I
took towards you.
Wrath
and swell
of
the silt-black sea
heavy
and mute
with
the weight
of
so much ice melting
returns
agency
to
me, and ease.
Eyes
travel,
trace
along the shape
of
pure coincidence;
sere
white falls hued
through
night air,
valuable,
and silvers
on
the waves.
Shafts
of light
unravel,
reeling
towards
shore: shine
relearns
its shadow image
and
I relearn more.
I
can scarcely scrape
and
scratch my eyes
across
the moons rough
surface.
To conjure
this
drag and chase down
the
fixed spines of time
and
the firm arrival
at
some great vein
of
truth appears
difficult.
My own
divinations,
though, draw
me
down the coast
and
raise my eyes high
despite
the bone-bright
glance
of the naked
skeleton
path on the water.
By Joan Kane
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