poet & multimodal artist
The river as road, the road as river. The 810 road is the main route up to Sand Mountain is pitted and scarred by OHV and 4-wheelers and is now a protected area and closed to vehicles, in order to slow down erosion. This leads to fewer visitors, but a beautiful hike up the mountain
I’ve been at work on a treated book-length copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Hiawatha. Hiawatha was a story I read as a child (an updated illustrated version in my mother’s home). The story of Hiawatha is Iroquoian, but many of the images and ideas drawn upon by Longfellow were of Anishinaabe cultures. So I’m revisiting the book
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