𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙧: "𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙠" 𝙗𝙮 𝙎𝙞𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙅. 𝙊𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙯 -

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

Pensive
Physical
Stirring

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

How does Ortiz carry his history? How should we?

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"At the threshold
of melancholy
is a voice barely heard

a light wrapped in fog
and a piece of steel
longing for flint.

Strike it."
--"Fire Strike," Margaret Noodin (Ojibwe original and English translation)

Loving this month's #poetryintranslation.

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