The crescent moon behind thin clouds illuminates trees.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Day: October 22, 2019
Caveat: in the system
Juneau School Inservice
--for Walter Soboleff
T'aawchán reads
how it feels to be
a Tlingit in the system
while a gauze of snow
winds past the windows
as if to cover up the problem.
– Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Tlingit poet, 1927-2017)
Caveat: Poem #1178 “Sixth stanza”
Kiamon never paid heed to her fate Wrecking the present and blanking her slate, Forcing her gaze toward the glowering moon Over the trees. But the end came too soon.
– a rhymed pair of tetrameter couplets, continuing the introspections of Kiamon, a fictional being.