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A poem on indigenous themes by Jennifer Reeser
Hidatsa Scarecrow Woman
Hidatsa Scarecrow Woman
- My “wicked” scheme to scare the crow:
- alongside Scattered Corn, I, Turtle,
- prepare balled skins of deer,
- clad in a kirtle.
- Two gangly sticks for legs I pound
- across the hills of bean and squash.
- Whatever crimes they might contrive,
- I quash.
- To these, two sticks for arms I lash
- beneath the scrap hides used for heads,
- with split deer entrails intertwined
- by threads.
- The Mapi—solar flowers—fence
- our garden with its ragged vagrants;
- but still, they bring the bees from sedge
- sans fragrance.
- My father was a fine corn priest.
- My best creations are my worst—
- for feasts sometimes depend
- on the accursed.
Jennifer Reeser
Jennifer Reeser is a poet, critic, and a translator of French and Russian literature. Her sonnet in response to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 appeared in her 2012 volume Sonnets from the Dark Lady & Other Poems. Her most recent book is Indigenous: Poems (Able Muse Press, 2018).
Here's something you might be interested in.
A poem on indigenous themes by Jennifer Reeser
Hidatsa Scarecrow Woman
A poem on indigenous themes by Jennifer Reeser
Hidatsa Scarecrow Woman
Hidatsa Scarecrow Woman
- My “wicked” scheme to scare the crow:
- alongside Scattered Corn, I, Turtle,
- prepare balled skins of deer,
- clad in a kirtle.
- Two gangly sticks for legs I pound
- across the hills of bean and squash.
- Whatever crimes they might contrive,
- I quash.
- To these, two sticks for arms I lash
- beneath the scrap hides used for heads,
- with split deer entrails intertwined
- by threads.
- The Mapi—solar flowers—fence
- our garden with its ragged vagrants;
- but still, they bring the bees from sedge
- sans fragrance.
- My father was a fine corn priest.
- My best creations are my worst—
- for feasts sometimes depend
- on the accursed.
Jennifer Reeser
Jennifer Reeser is a poet, critic, and a translator of French and Russian literature. Her sonnet in response to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 appeared in her 2012 volume Sonnets from the Dark Lady & Other Poems. Her most recent book is Indigenous: Poems (Able Muse Press, 2018).
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