"Scraps of Indigenous History"
scratched hinterlands and the far-flung cased behind glass
collected in multiples piecemeal and over time
stitched with fishing twine housed in museum vaults
the ongoing catapulted into waters moving out to
unfinished sentences songs of smoke marks on clay
a leg lifted in a dance no one remembers
land lived on is only for feet dusty imprints blown away
a headdress woven feathered ribbon-trimmed
beauty seared into skin tattooed stripes on the chin
scripts of uninformed information eluded, erased
land forms left snake-like telling us in what dialect
anonymous was what was Wiyot was imprinted with a map
was dark of face was blue unborn was landlocked
was unnamed was pictured only as the unseen
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