How We Learn to Say "Mouth" and "Hand" and "Small of Back"
Body to body
do we create
language?
We are Indian
woman and man
(brown skin
on brown skin)
and don't speak
our tribal languages
so when we touch
I pray, you pray
we pray
that we create
all these words
in the good way
our grandparents did
with our own true tongues.
Sherman Alexie.........from The Summer of Black Widows
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