Tacey Atsitty, Dine.
Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné, from Cove, Arizona is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle People). She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, and Morning Star Creative Writing Award. She holds bachelor degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is a recent graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Cornell University. She currently teaches English and Native American Studies at San Juan College in Farmington, NM. Her work has appeared in Florida Review, Talking Stick: Native Arts Quarterly, New Poets of the American West Anthology and other publications. Her chapbook Amenorrhea came out February 2009 by Counting Coup Press.*
When you’ve been standing (in rain) so long, you no longer hear
or feel it falling— you believe it’s stopped. Step away—
look to your (skin; muck itch. It’s a) shame, your hands
have gone bald from fungus. Taking you to (what’s beneath scab,
to) one of those nights when you know (your gums will bleed.
To say) it’s been a while or that it has to do with (wrist mange
is to say rot comes so easily now, skin weep—) lapse. Step through
the whole (black of your home,) and still know damp, know
(exactly when to cup your finger for) the light switch.
` ` `
so familiar (in aubade)
shame, your hands
have gone haywire. Taking you to (what’s beneath rust: ranges
they’ve grazed—) a time
when you’re combed through
when you know your knuckles—
and all that the rain has swallowed.*
by Tacey Atsitty
*http://www.drunkenboat.com/db15/tacey-atsitty
IMIX
Kin 241: Red Resonant Dragon
I channel in order to nurture
Inspiring being
I seal the input of birth
With the resonant tone of attunement
I am guided by the power of space
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.
Every moment is a spiritual opportunity and potential opening.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2016-2017.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Muladhara Chakra (Seli Plasma)
*http://www.drunkenboat.com/db15/tacey-atsitty
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