For hundreds of years worlds have been taken
With those responsible intent on remaking
Histories so that only one story gets told
As more life is forced into their hold
But there are still many alternative futures
Though to get there requires collective sutures
Using another story that is still in our bones
We can’t find the way forward alone
For many stories are buried too deep,
Past, present and futures that will never meet
So here by distilling books and placing their
spirit in poems
I try to learn and share these other ways of
knowing.