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Even now, she cannot stop searching for a way out of her skin and into a life that fits all her fire.
“I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
“I release you, fear, because you hold
these scenes in front of me and I was born
with eyes that can never close.”
― She Had Some Horses
these scenes in front of me and I was born
with eyes that can never close.”
― She Had Some Horses
“Maybe it is the thunders
who breathed life into my body.
They are forever wanting
to lift me high and carry me away."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
who breathed life into my body.
They are forever wanting
to lift me high and carry me away."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
“Home is elusive.
It shapeshifts with the currents
of my heart and its will.
Home is a trickster changing
according to the medicine
of the season and its lesson."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
It shapeshifts with the currents
of my heart and its will.
Home is a trickster changing
according to the medicine
of the season and its lesson."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
“We are only atoms trailing the carved skull wrapped inside a sunbeam.”
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