Nora Marks Dauenhauer Poems

My grandmother Eliza
was the family surgeon.
Her scalpel made from a pocketknife
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Like people
emerging from a steambath,
bending over,
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Eaglecrest, Juneau, February 24, 1989
Amelia, space-age girl
at top of Sourdough
makes her run with Eagle Grandpa Dick,
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Granddaughters dancing,
blossoms
swaying in the wind.
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Alaska Native youth
flickering
in strobelight:
disco diorama.
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-for all Tlingit women
who slice fish for the
smokehouse
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