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" I have been trying to put a finger on how the technology of our age has changed my thought process. Nicholas Carr hits the nail on the head with The Shallows. He proposes that our attraction to fast news, short interaction, and distracting communi... "
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"Nice, I will check that one out, Jefferson. My happiest find from 'New Voices' is Roberta Hill Whiteman. Here is one of my favorites:

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'In the Longhous...more Nice, I will check that one out, Jefferson. My happiest find from 'New Voices' is Roberta Hill Whiteman. Here is one of my favorites:

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'In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum'

House of five fires, you never raised me.
Those nights when the throat of the furnace
wheezed and rattled its regular death,
I wanted your wide door,

your mottled air of bark and working sunlight,
wanted your smokehole with its stars,
and your roof curving its singing mouth above me.
Here are the tiers once filled with sleepers,

and their low laughter measured harmony or strife.
Here I could wake amazed at winter,
my breath in the draft a chain of violets.
The house I left as a child now seems

a shell of sobs. Each year I dream it sinister
and dig in my heels to keep out the intruder
banging at the back door. My eyes burn
from cat urine under the basement stairs

and the hall reveals a nameless hunger,
as if without a history, I should always walk
the cluttered streets of this hapless continent.
Thinking it best I be wanderer,

I rode whatever river, ignoring every zigzag,
every spin. I've been a fragment, less than my name,
shaking in a solitary landscape,
like the last burnt leaf on an oak.

What autumn wind told me you'd be waiting?
House of five fires, they take you for a tomb,
but I know you better. When desolation comes,
I'll hide your ridgepole in my spine

and melt into crow call, reminding my children
that spiders near your door
joined all the reddening blades of grass
without oil, hasp, or uranium.


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Hope its alright to post it, for those in need of some instant gratification. ;) She is of my tribe, the Oneida. And she makes me cry!(less) "