Geordie de Boer
USA
I Am This Land

Breathing boot-heel dust infused 
with the bones of ancestors 
I become them, they become me.

At Waiilatpu, the Willamette, 
the Ochocos, they are that dust. 
Mingled with dust of there, I

am born of dust, become me 
becoming them. I am the dust 
at Waiilatpu, the Willamette, 

the Ochocos. I am the dust 
of my ancestors. They are 
this land, I am this land.

 

 

 

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