“moon loves frog” ZJC (2007)
The space to be at peace with oneself comes in different forms. Today I am happily studying my amphibians. Omakakii is the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) word for frog. I am not yet at a point where I can construct anything more than baby-talk sentences (and I have my doubts […]
Baa, baa, black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
three bags full.
One for the master.
One for the dame.
And one for the little boy
who lives down the lane.
My Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) studies have been going a bit slow of late. I had a wonderful opportunity at attending a language class run by the renowned author […]
“mahmud darwish”
Alone, we are alone as far down as the sediment/ Were it not for the visits of the rainbows … MD
We have passed yet another anniversary marker of the beginning of my country’s occupation of Iraq and while I do enjoy many of the poems I discover in Poets Against War, I have been […]
“fox and girl, 1854″ ZJC (2007)
It’s amazing to think that in the year 2007 we are still a rather primitive and barbaric species when it comes to certain subjects; say, our own human biology and how we chose to deal with it. Take, for example, religious views of human biology versus scientific views […]
“anishinaabeg girls, lake of the woods, 1912″ ZJC (2007)
First, let me just say I am not Ojibwe or from any of the aboriginal cultures of the Americas; I am not a self-proclaimed “expert” on anything; and will not try to spin anyone’s history to fit my own personal ideas. The idea of this post […]