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The Seven Blades
“Ah! Hah! Again the prick, the stab of gadfly-sting!”from Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus You arrive on the IslandSeeking refugeIn the peace and quiet,But everywhere harboursThose who are out for blood,Too soon you encounterThe seven-bladedBite of the horseflyTwo Blades stretch the skin taut,One scrapes it raw,One slices it open,Two hold the wound apart,One goes in for the finalBlood-filled…
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i finally found the thing i've been looking for
searching for, for years
i finally found it on an island out east
and there it tasted just as i'd imagined it would
rich chocolate, delicious and sweet
where i couldn't smell the difference in the air
but i could feel it on my skin
where i found myself in that rich red dirt
where it fades to soft amber sand
where it fades to an endless horizon of steely blue
and when i found it again here
at home, in the gray world
of tall glass buildings and honking cars
and the gasoline i can smell
it doesn't quite taste the same here, no
synthetic sugar, not quite right
not like it did on that island out east
with the rolling hills and the deep green trees
and the goats and the cows and the potato fields
ah, that's home, that's where i'm from
if not me then my family
and my family's family
l'nuk, on the mi'kma'ki
prince edward island/epekwitk by laika wallace
#prince edward island#pei#epekwitk#native poetry#indigenous#indigenous poetry#native#native canadian#native american#mi'kmaq#mi'kmaw#l'nuk
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Epekwitk Assembly of Councils #princeedwardisland #charlottetown #waterstreet #epekwitk #mikmaq #indigenous (at Downtown Charlottetown) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkEQ4Qgmu6/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Train of Thought in Epekwitk(PEI)
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AFSOL 2024 REDUX
A fish out of water A fish shit out of luckI find you shimmering Silver and sky-blue Small so smallNo bigger than my thumbDead on the red sandOf the north shoreThirty-six years agoThere was a whaleA big whaleA big blue whaleBeached at Nail PondAs dead as a door nailCrowds came From miles aroundTo gawk at herMarvel at herEnormous Walk-in vagina “Da size of da friggin’ ting?”Someone took a chainsaw…
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#Throw Poetry Collective#blue whale#Climate Crisis#cryptomnesia#Epekwitk#Hurricane Fiona#L&039;nuey#Mi&039;kma&039;ki
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Three eagles take flight
Three eagles take flightSpiral up from Greenwich BeachHigher and higherDisappear into white cloudsLeaving claw marks in red sand AGG20230804 To all the posts that are arising out of my COVID-19 confinement, click here. To read Songs about Sex, Death & Cicadas by Andrew Grimes Griffin, just click on the link. To download a pdf, right click on the link and select “Save link as…”To read as close as…
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On the shores of Epekwitk
On the shores of Epekwitk #Solo_Renga #poetry #AGG #Tankawanka #Cutty #COVID19 #Epekwitk #Gay #Grief #Alain_Bonkela https://tinyurl.com/z85ne5dp
Such is the beauty That you’re no longer part of Waves and sun and wind All these once enticed our skin Together—now mine alone You swam in these waters—once You lay on these white sands—once Your beauty was—once The gentleness of these waves Caressing hot sands No returning—now Wind will seeming endless sculpt Ever-shifting dunes Strangely different waves—now Suffering changes Leave my broken…
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