8. tattooed freckles

"The assertion of ethnicity, race, caste, nationalism, sub-nationalism, patriarchy, and all kinds of identity, by exploiters as well as the exploited, has a lot—but of course not everything—to do with laying collective claim to resources (water, land, jobs, money) that are fast disappearing."

when colors melt like lemon drops
across the Sxwaixwe chimney tops

to say even that much
a cage made of lights

& they did investigate
found nothing

over & over
they found nothing

a twinge in the hand could have told them
computer in a hand-knit bag