Long, smooth fingers powerful and exact
Pull and twist
Sorting spokes and splitting weavers
Constructing my idea of water
Excerpt from "Water As A Sense of Place," Kim Shuck, in When The Light Of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, ed. Joy Harjo with Leanne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Contibuting Editors