near Maxson Trailhead, Me-Wuk, Yokuts, Mono lands, August 2022 Alicia Elliott is a Haudenosaunee writer whose essay collection A Mind Spread Out on the Ground I read this summer. I keep returning this passage: "We untangle the threads of history and treat the wounds we find underneath. We listen to one another, support one another, … Continue reading A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Tag: land
you stand on Ohlone bones
every where i go i see names that echo those who came before, those who were displaced, those whom street signs and plaques seek to honor while our appetite for fuel pollutes the land we revere them for revering we mythologize and romanticize the love of land, of nature, while also killing it modern American … Continue reading you stand on Ohlone bones
nowhere is nowhere
the expression "the middle of nowhere" is dangerous this nowhere is somewhere to someone to something to the grasses which have learned so well how to old onto water to the birds that can spot a lizard from a quarter mile above to the people who pass through or struggle to stay every nowhere is … Continue reading nowhere is nowhere