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Those are all new poems.

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I'm going to read one poem
from my latest collection just

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to close out, and it is a
poem that honors communities

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and what we mean to one another.

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About standing in kinship.

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We all have the same
little bones in our foot

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26 with funny names
like navicular

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Together they build
something strong

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Our foot arch, a
pyramid holding us up

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These bones don't get
casts when they break

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We tape them one phalange
to its neighbor for support

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Other things work that
way to find healing

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in the leaning, the closeness

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Our feet have one quarter
of all the bones in our body

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Maybe we should give more
honor to feet and to all

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the tiny but blessed
cogs in the world

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Communities, the forgotten
architecture of friendship.

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Chi-miigwech.

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[APPLAUSE, CHEER]

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