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carried you out through
spring's unfolding
cradled in palm
fingers wrapped up
an open cage
faithlessly I assigned you dead
then
from deep surrender you stirred
one shallow inhale mine
from body in my hand
to a tickle of sparrow feet
your
eyes clearing
hesitation trusting
flight spiritual
Oh, if only I could have held love like that.
NOTES
When I think of "making kin," my thoughts immediately go to Standing Rock. It seems to
me that the unifying force of the kinship that grew beyond anyone's imaginings, was
Sioux spirituality – the Great Spirit is of everything and therefore we are all related-
people, plants, animals, rocks, water. To save Grandmother Earth's water is also to save
us all, all species. It seems to me that Standing Rock provides an example of how
psychological kinship is created among people through an alchemy of proximity, respect,
mutual goals and shared experience, including trauma. While familiarity may be the
