The Birch Canoe -- An alliterative poem by Osage poet Carter Revard

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The Birch Canoe

Carter Revard

First published in Cowboys and Indians, Christmas Shopping. Reprinted by permission.

Red men embraced · my body's whiteness,cutting into me · carved it free,sewed it tight · with sinews takenfrom lightfoot deer · who leaped this stream--now in my ghost-skin · they glide over cloudsat home in the fish's · fallen heaven.

Copyright © Carter Revard, 1992.

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