Junk tribal belonging we considered changing them

we considered changing them

“Europeans Brought Civilization to Backward Indians”

Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds—and the people’s roots here remain strong

a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice

Junk tribal belonging we considered changing themJunk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing