Forgotten Ground Regained
The Birch Canoe
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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