Big Lagoon [O’keto – Yurok, Ri’tsap – Wiyot] To the left the rancheria there (Yurok, Wiyot, Tolowa peoples) To the distant right along the Pacific coastline is Sue-meg Point

Thirsting Sunlight

1-15-2024, Big Lagoon

the left - rancheria there (Yurok, Wiyot, Tolowa peoples)
the distant right along the Pacific coastline - Sue-meg Point

~ For Klee Benally, who wrote: “Hope is a terrible tactic.” In *No Spiritual Surrender – Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred*

finding the dragon egg

~ along Redwood Creek, Hale-wisi in ancestral Yurok territory. 1-15-2024

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Important talk on how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in this moment & how the language we use to resist the colonial project can sometimes fail to meet the scale of our demands.

after sunset
near the end of daylight
O’KET’-TOH *quiet water* – the freshwater lagoon seen from CHAH-PEKW the Coast Yurok village once there since time immemorial 9-28-2023
 
beyond each edge
there is somewhere else
an ocean
a sky
death
 
somewhere else
alive
dark
and the light there
 
journey well

Clawed Sunset, Future Portents ~ from the mouth of the Baduwa’i [Mad] River, ancestral Wiyot territory, 10-2-2023

Genocidal Zionist colonists
use weapons on the indigenous
screaming
NAZIS! TERRORISTS! ISUS!
Killing in the Warsaw Ghetto
they’ve recreated at GAZA
 
Surprised
when there is a Warsaw Uprising.
 
Duplicating the pogroms of Europe
in the West Bank.
 
All this
gleaning
wrong lessons from their history

Picture: Gaza being bombed at night right now. Credit: Al Jazeera

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.

       ~ James Baldwin

Picture: Gaza being bombed at night right now. Credit: Al Jazeera

Picture: Yayoi Kusama, 'Infinity Mirrored Room, The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away'

A Hopi elder said
this Fourth World
we make our way thru

is the Sparkly World
 
Lit screens big or small
gleaming glass & bright metal
distract

Yet shining Stars
day or night
guide
 
Set us straight as to
proportion and
finding our winding way
 
~ July 8, 2023