"Toolbox: Inherited Instruments" is a six-sequence poem of raw ancestral sacredness wielded by Aotearoa (New Zealand) poet Topher Shields.
Tag: ancestry
Serape
BY SARAH CHAVERA EDWARDS I never knew him in life. The man with calloused hands and almond eyes that would turn into half-moons when he laughed.
Tacey M. Atsitty – Anasazi
Atsitty's poem evokes the simultaneous absence and presence of ancestry, of unplanned, hurried, enforced departures and of what remains and endures.