Private Rituals
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between landscape and the female body:
earth sand stones plants flowers blood
a silhouette
digging
molding
carving
space
visible & tactile
between the body and the land:
one obsessive act
female force
after-image
within the womb
optical indexes
memory-traces
ancient stone circles
individual desires
splendid imperative
like Cézanne’s apples –
satisfied not static
subjective earth
what desire

Shauna Osborn is an award-winning Numunuu (Comanche) / German mestiza artist, researcher, and wordsmith. Her debut poetry collection is called Arachnid Verve. She was recently named national director of the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. You can find her online at shaunamosborn.wordpress.com.
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