Orlando White, Dine (Navajo).
Poet Orlando White is from Tólikan, Arizona. He is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné’e. White earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of LETTERRS (2015) and Bone Light (2009), a collection of poems Kazim Ali described as a “careful excavation on language and letters and the physical body.” White’s work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. The recipient of a residency from the Lannan Foundation, White teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, and in the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.*
*www.poetryfoundation.org
Emit
by Orlando White
Letters will evade and strive
within the labor of words, under
the weight of ink, of languish.
And each alphabet a stapes,
a lilt of sound: curve murmurs
to O and straight quivers
in L. In that moment form
intones, a letter exists in a book,
the cochlea of thought. An impulse
shudders j, its bent leg, leaps out
from a sentence, as i stridulates
its serif points against paper, a deep
trill-silent chirp.*
*www.superstitionreview.asu.edu
BEN
Kin 213: Red Overtone Skywalker
I empower in order to explore
Commanding wakefulness
I seal the output of space
With the overtone tone of radiance
I am guided by the power of birth.
The management and control of the emotions has to do with the management and control of the ego.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.
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