Resurrection

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80 WLT MAY–AUGUST 2017 Resurrection by Jennifer Elise Foerster Summers we lie out on the hot porch palms splayed— raising flames from ragweed hoofed dancers from the boundaries tornado’s sharp-toed steeds. In the rusted truck behind the barn a tufted titmouse sings balled up like a stone its stick claws stiff as thorns. When the nest of starlings built in the eaves drops a hatchling we steal its pink body to the roof lay it out beneath the lightning. Our mouths creak open to the honeyed light— tie-snakes bind our feet. Jennifer Elise Foerster is an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Vermont College of the Fine Arts. A Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen, she is pursuing her PhD at the University of Denver. Her first book of poems, Leaving Tulsa, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2013. cover feature new native writing Norman Akers (Osage), The Gathering (2012), lithograph, 22 3/4 x 16 3/8 in / Courtesy of the artist (normanakers.com) WORLDLIT.ORG 81 Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing ed. Allison Hedge Coke (Salt Publishing, 2014) Christopher Felver Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits (University of New Mexico Press, 2017) Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry ed. Duane Niatum (Harper & Row, 1988) Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology ed. Hope Nicholson (Bedside Press, 2016) Off the Path Volume II: An Anthology of 21st Century American Indian and Indigenous Writers ed. Adrian Jawort Off the Path Press, 2015 Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writing of North America ed. Joy Harjo & Gloria Bird (W.W. Norton, 1998) The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature ed. Geary Hobson (Red Earth Press, 1979 / University of New Mexico Press, 1993) Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers’ Festival ed. Joseph Bruchac (University of Arizona Press, 1994) Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas ed. Allison Hedge Coke (University of Arizona Press, 2011) Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community ed. Heid Erdrich & Laura Tohe (Minnesota Historical Press, 2002) Songs from This Earth on Turtle’s Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry ed. Joseph Bruchac (Greenfield Review Press, 1983) Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction ed. Grace L Dillon (University of Arizona Press, 2012) WORLDLIT.ORG 81 for further reading ...