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night
my granddaughter says,
Grandma, are you afraid?
And I say, no,
knowing this place
where the white dog lives,
where the chickens and birds
hide eggs,
where the neighbor's geese go at night
leaving the river of new
darkness.
come
up from the ground at night
so thick and beautiful you can hear them.
They
shine and explore the black loam
and raise themselves to the night.
I have
seen this.
us
from the first universe
where the beginnings of stars are never
tame.
first to see her.
I held her up to be seen alive by ancestors
And
beautiful spirits.
is there.
If I think about it
if she cries at night,
I will join
her.
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Linda Hogan (born 1947) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.Early life
Hogan's ancestry is Chickasaw, but she has written that her family's military background meant that she grew up in a peripatetic way that denied her
any sense of belonging to an individual Native community, mostly living
in Colorado and Oklahoma.
She was the first member of her family to go to school, and not only did well there but went on to receive her MA from the University of Colorado in 1978. She began writing professionally while working in a career for orthopedically handicapped children.Published work
Hogan has published works in many different backgrounds and forms.
Her concentration is on environmental themes (she has acted as a
consultant in bringing together Native tribal representatives and
environmental campaigners) and feminist themes, particularly allying
them to her Native ancestry. All of her work, whether fiction or
non-fiction, displays a holistic understanding of the world.
Hogan has also written historical novels that focus on the
historical wrongs done to both Native Americans and the American
landscape during the colonisation of North America.
Hogan has also been employed as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, publishing essays on Native American literature.Awards & recognition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Hogan_(writer)
one footfall after another,
we explore our world,
our hands free to catch the air
and feel the wind of love at our backs.