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after Oppen & Howe by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

The essence of the country is bound up in Indian Land and African slave labor. Paul Smith, Lost in America

(7) even if we have not chosen meaning of being wildered women shipwreck abscessed

(16) she who will not write seeps troubles the rest isnt his beloved, discovered

the sea unsheathes her pen

(26-27)
One must not come to feel that he has a thousand threads in his hands, He must somehow see the one thing Oppen Of Being Numerous

some say John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) Cabotto Kaboto Chiabotto Bagoto Cabuto Savoto, etc., a Genoese sailing for England met Micmacs some say

Le Matre-Pilote Jacques Cartier Nova Scotia 1497 or 1534

where earth (later) is most shorn of wounds upended

womb of the moving column a woman chiefs daughter emmaline

splint ashwood birch bark split cedar history disappearing white race into

her braids cheekbone darken sssssshhhhh generation a system sisters skin passes from generation to turn up

the way rape marks & her

difficult knot to speak

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