'Colour is the skin of the world' - Sonia Delaunay

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Anasazi

BY TACEY M. ATSİTTY

How can we die when we're already

prone to leaving the table mid-meal

like Ancient Ones gone to breathe

elsewhere. Salt sits still, but pepper's gone

rolled off in a rush. We've practiced dying

for a long time: when we skip dance or town,

when we chew. We've rounded out

like dining room walls in a canyon, eaten

through by wind—Sorry we rushed off;

the food wasn't ours. Sorry the grease sits

white on our plates, and the jam that didn't set—

use it as syrup to cover every theory of us.

August 9 is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, which exists to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population.