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Kristen Lenea Ryberg

Image from Medicine Cards, SAMS & CARSON, Bear & Co.

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Wolf cuts dark
splits drape
of night’s middle
hollow hunger woke
from dream-twitch
glow-haunched
in moonlight
calls her pack
bristle chin to stars
small O of mouth-howls 
she makes everything 
from scratch
tooth and nose-scrape
rolls on her back
in time 
parallel to mine
unaware of true endings.

Rethinking Thanksgiving

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address