Poem-A-Day: Nunaqtigiit by Joan Kane

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Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory) by Joan Kane The enemy misled that missed the island in the fog, I believe in one or the other, but both exist now         to confuse me. Dark from dark. Snow from snow. I believe in one-- Craggy boundary, knife blade at the throat's     slight swell. From time to time the sound of voices                                     as through sun-singed grass, or grasses that we used to insulate the walls of our     winter houses-- walrus hides lashed together with rawhide cords. So warm within the willows ingathered forced into leaf. I am named for your sister Naviyuk: call me apoŋ. Surely there are ghosts here, my children sprung         from these deeper furrows. The sky of my mind against which self-                                          betrayal in its sudden burn         fails to describe the world. We, who denied the landscape                                           and saw the light of it. Leaning against the stone wall ragged I began to accept my past and, as I accepted it, I felt, and I didn't understand:                                            I am bound to everyone. Copyright © 2013 by Joan Kane. Used with permission of the author. This week, Academy of American Poets Chancellor Arthur Sze serves as guest editor for the Poem-A-Day series. Poetry by Kane The Cormorant Hunter's Wife January 7, 2013 Joan Kane's third book, Hyperboreal, won the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize and will be published by Pittsburgh in 2013. She's Iñupiat and lives in Anchorage, Alaska. Related Poems Ladders by Elizabeth Alexander How I Got That Name by Marilyn Chin Ancestors by Cesare Pavese Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.   Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.   Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010.  Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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