Jennifer Elise Foerster, Muscogee (Creek).
Jennifer Foerster
Preface
Preface
there were maps.
There was skin. Stone.
There was time:
the ripening
of corn. Moonlight
and her shadow. Grief
given space: a circular
shelter. We stayed inside
for a number of days.
Stacked rocks around ourselves.
The clock was a gate.
There were highways.
Mined gashes.
We were slit, bled.
Slid to the ledge
of the dark province.
There were crosses: spiders
to sew shut the wounds
we reaped for you, Magdalena.*
*http://www.drunkenboat.com
Jennirfer Elise Foerster received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2007) and her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2003). From 2008-2010, Jennifer was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She has received a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, along with fellowships to attend Soul Mountain Retreat, Caldera Arts, the Naropa Summer Writing Program, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center. Foerster's first book of poems, Leaving Tulsa, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2013, and was a Shortlist Finalist for the 2014 PEN Open Book Award. Of German, Dutch, and Muscogee descent, Jennifer is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Jennifer grew up living internationally, and now lives in San Francisco while concurrently pursuing her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.*
www.jenniferfoerster.com
MEN
Kin 215: Blue Resonant Eagle
I channel in order to create
Inspiring mind
I seal the output of vision
with the resonant tone of attunement
I am guided by the power of accomplishment.
World Noosphere Day. Feast of Mary Magdalene (Catholic). an utterly clear mental field is required to create laser-like focus.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)
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