1 Cimi
White Magnetic World-Bridger
Death comes –
Blade of Atropos
In the Land of Life, Death, Life
The cycle dips to Nadir –
Breath stops
Motion ends
Ending
Only that which
We can sense –
A finer Phase begins –
The Mystagogue arrives
Adding another Thread –
Soul’s being
Beneath Breath is
Shining Love
Eternal –
We doff the Envelope
And fly again.
*Kleomichele Leeds
Ofelia Zepeda
Ofelia Zepeda (born in Stanfield, Arizona, 1952) is a Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual. She is Regents' Professor of Tohono O'odham language and linguistics and Head of American Indian Studies at The University of Arizona.
Life
Zepeda is a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and is well known for her efforts in the preservation of and the promotion of literacy in Tohono O'odham. She served as director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona from 1986 to 1991. She is a consultant and advocate on behalf of a number of American indigenous languages. She is the author of A Papago Grammar and co-author of the article "Derived Words in Tohono O'odham", published in the International Journal of American Linguistics. She was a student of MIT linguistics professor Ken Hale.
Zepeda has worked with her tribe to improve literacy in both English and Tohono O'odham. In 1983, she developed A Papago Grammar from tapes of Native speakers because no textbook existed for the classes she taught. Her work with the reservation committee for Tohono O'odham language policy yielded an official policy that encourages the speaking of the Native language at all grade levels.
In 1995 she published a book of poetry, Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert, and she titled the introduction, "Things That Help Me Begin to Remember".
In 1999, Zepeda received a MacArthur Fellowship. She was a member of the literary advisory committee for Sun Tracks, a publishing program featuring Native American works, and is the series editor. In 2012, her book of poetry was banned by Tucson schools.
Works
Where Clouds Are Formed. University of Arizona Press. 2008.
Jewed 'i-hoi : O'odham c milga:n s-ke:g ha'icu cegĭtodag = Earth movements : a collection of poems in O'odham & English. Kore Press. 2005.
Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks. University of Arizona Press. 1995.
Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert. University of Arizona Press. 1995.
A Papago Grammar. The University of Arizona Press. 1983.
When It Rains, Papago and Pima Poetry = Mat hekid o ju, 'O'odham Na-cegitodag. University of Arizona Press. 1982.*
CIMI
Kin 66: White Magnetic World-Bridger
I unify in order to equalize
Attracting opportunity
I seal the store of death
With the magnetic tone of purpose
I am guided by my own power doubled.
All teachers, teachings, science and knowledge of past, present and future are one program or experiment in cosmic engineering.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)
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