Sacred stars blanket a nighttime sky,
each light reminds us of the preciousness of life.
Your memory lives along the Milky Way,
each twinkle saying don’t forget my name.
It’s an epidemic, a sickness of the earth,
a war we enter as soon as we are birthed.
Indigenous women, girls, our two-spirit, too.
When did this world start disappearing you?
Copyright Credit: Tanaya Winder, “And I wonder where you are” from Poetry (March 2021). Copyright © 2021 by Tanaya Winder. Used with the permission of the author.
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