Performance Tags Used in Events

Red

Beside the gravel driveway

My husband has hung

four red dresses.

I watch them sway and dance

sleeves uplifted in the branches.

Red.

Valentines, Anniversaries.

Birthdays, Christmas.

Red lipstick, nail polish.

Shoes, dresses, purses

for love.

deer, rabbit, duck, beaver

muskrat, moose, [or] elk

Nohkom's headkerchief.

Nimosoom's neck bandana.

An infant's birth blood gushing

Its placenta buried

Fire bolts

[for] four days mourning the truth

They return to the hearth.

racing through the tree

The people's blood

coursing through our veins.