White Planetary Mirror/ White Magnetic Dog - Day Out of Time

Natalie Diaz, Mojave.

Natalie Diaz is a Mojave American poet, language activist, and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community.

Natalie Diaz grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the border of California, Arizona, and Nevada. She attended Old Dominion University where she played point guard on the women’s basketball team, reaching the NCAA Final Four as a freshman and the bracket of sixteen her other three years. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia, she returned to Old Dominion University, and completed an MFA in poetry and fiction, in 2006.

Her work appeared in Narrative, Poetry magazine, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, and Crab Orchard Review.

Diaz's debut book of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was a 2012 Lannan Literary Selection, a 2013 PEN/Open Book Award shortlist, and “portrays experiences rooted in Native American life with personal and mythic power.” One important focus of the book is a brother’s addiction to crystal meth. In 2012, she was interviewed about her poetry and language rehabilitation work on the PBS News Hour.

Diaz currently lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona where she directs a language revitalization program at Fort Mojave, her home reservation, and works with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language.*

*www.wikipedia.com



Dome Riddle

Tonight I am riddled by this thick skull

this white bowling ball zipped in the sad sack carrying case of my face,
this over wound bone jack-in-the-box,
this Orlando’s zero, Oaxacan offering: cabeza locada, calavera azucarada,
   cenote of Mnemosyne,
this sticky, sweet guilt hive, piedra blanca del rio oscuro,
this electric tom tom drum ticking like an Acme bomb, hypnotized explosive
   device, pensive general, scalp-strapped warrior, soldier with a loaded God  
   complex,
this Hotchkiss-obliterated headdress, Gatling-lit labyrinth,
this memory grenade, death epithet, death epitaph, mound of momento mori,
this twenty-two part talisman wearing a skirt of breasts, giant ball of masa,
this god patella in the long leg of my torso, zoo of Blake’s tygers and canines,
this red-skinned apple, lamp illuminated by teeth, gang of grin, spit wad of scheme,
this jawbone of an ass, smiling sliver of smite, David’s rock striking the Goliath
   of my body,
this Library of Babel,  homegrown Golgotha, melon festival,
this language mausoleum: chuksanych iraavtahanm, ‘avi kwa’anyay, ‘ava iiyaly  
   kuupam,
   sumach nyamasav,
this amygdale cage, misery penitentiary, hidden glacier hungry for a taste of titanic
   flesh,
this pleasure altar, Frenchkiss sweatshop, abacus of one-night stands, hippocampus
   whorehouse, oubliette of regret,
this church of tongue, chapel of vengeance, cathedral of thought, silvery-blue dome
   of despair, attic confessional, plaza del toro y pensamientos,
this museum of Tribal dentistry,
this commodity cranium cupboard, petrified dream catcher, sun-ruined basketball I
   haul—rotten gray along the seams—perpetual missed shot,
this insomnia podium, little bowl in a big fish, brain amphitheater, girl in the moon,
this 3 a.m. war bell tolling, tolling, duende vision prison, jar of fading stars,
this single scoop vanilla head rush, thunder head, fast ball, lightning rod,
this mad scientist in a white lab helmet, atom bomb mushroom cloud, ghost of
   Smoking Mirror,
this hot air balloon, forgetful chandelier, casa de relámpago,
this coyote beacon, calcium corral of hot Perlino ponies, night blooming cereus,
   gourd gone rattle, bankrupt factory of tears,
this Halloween crown, hat rack, worry contraption, Rimbaud’s drunken boat afloat
   in the wine dark belly of my personal Monstruo,
this coliseum venatio: Borges’s other tiger licking the empty shell of Lorca’s white
   tortuga,
this underdressed godhead, forever-hatching egg, this mug again and again at my
   lips,

and all this because tonight I imagined you sleeping with her
the way we once slept—as intimate as a jaw, maxilla and mandible hot,
in the skin—in love, our heads almost touching.*

Natalie Diaz

*http://www.drunkenboat.com/db15/natalie-diaz


The Day Out of Time is the last day of the 13 Moon/28-day calendar, a day which is no day of the week or month at all, but a day to celebrate our galactic heritage and creative unification! It is up to us to co-create the world that we would like to see.

ETZNAB

Kin 218: White Planetary Mirror

I perfect in order to reflect

Producing order

I seal the matrix of endlessness

With the planetary tone of manifestation

I am guided by the power of death

I am a galactic activation portal

Enter me.

The Earth and myself are one mind.*

*Stat Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Sahasrara Chakra (Dali Plasma)

Red Solar Earth/ Red Cosmic Moon - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 28

Santee Frazier, Cherokee.

Santee Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University.

He is the recipient of various awards including: Syracuse University Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowships, and most recently The School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer in Residence.  His poems have appeared in American Poet, Narrative Magazine, Ontario Review, Ploughshares, and other literary journals. His first collection of poems Dark Thirty was released by the University of Arizona Press in 2009.*

*www.santeefrazier.com

Ritual of Sunrise

Out on the shine off the street there is the reflection of the coming

bustle of dawn, of plastic and bolted steel, neon and industry caught in

the asphalt. And as the grass sweats—the groan of machinery echoing

off masonry—the dust rises, sewing itself in the fat of trees, shining

the faces of men in the ditch under hard hats, shoveling dirt, whose

language rolls the tongue of digging. The clank and song are ancient, a

music hidden away in the busting soil and rock. This almost ritual of

sunrise, of shovel, and the gearing mechanisms of progress reminds

me of the time I saw a man finger-painting a wall in unlaced high-tops.

Smearing gold into brick. His face shined like gunmetal, and when I

saw him suck the gold from the paper bag, I knew his ritual had something

to do with time travel, with brick, before mineral, polygon, the

invention of wheel, story of flat, firing of clay. And now making my

way through this city whose streets are named by numbers and minerals—the

sunlight breaking the haze of dust & exhaust-I realize the

oldest thing in this city is drought.*

Santee Frazier

*https://sarweb.org/media/files/santee_frazier_ritual_of_sunrise.pdf

CABAN

Kin 217: Red Solar Earth

I pulse in order to evolve

Realizing synchronicity

I seal the matrix of navigation

With the solar tone of intention

I am guided by the power of space.

Noosphere Pause: Day 364 of the 13 Moon year. The noosphere is the aggregate of the advanced states of mind and consciousness that characterize all intelligent life throughout the universe.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Anahata Chakra (Silio Plasma)

Yellow Galactic Warrior/ Yellow Crystal Star - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 27

Cathy Tagnet Rexford, Inupiaq, 

Poet and playwright Cathy Tagnak Rexford was born in Alaska and is of Inupiaq, French, German, and English descent. She earned an MFA from the University of British Columbia, where she is currently pursuing a PhD. Grounded in photography and lyric documentary, her poetry has appeared in various anthologies. Her chapbook Black Ice appeared in Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim (2009), and individual poems have appeared in Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry (2007) and To Topos Poetry International (1999). She is the author of A Crane Story (illustrated by Sini Salminen, 2013). Her plays include The Namesake and, with Challen Wilson, The Winter Overture; Rexford also works on short films. She has received fellowships from the First Peoples House of Learning and the Rasmuson Foundation.*

*http://cathyrexford.com/

The Ecology of Subsistence

Cathy Tagnak Rexford

No daylight for two months, an ice chisel slivers

frozen lake water refracting blue cinders.

By light of an oil lamp, a child learns to savor marrow: 

cracked caribou bones a heap on the floor.

A sinew, thickly wrapped in soot, threads through 

the meat on her chin: a tattoo in three slender lines.

One white ptarmigan plume fastened to the lip of 

a birch wood basket; thaw approaches: the plume turns brown.

On the edge of the open lead, a toggle-head harpoon 

waits to launch: bowhead sings to krill. 

Thickened pack ice cracking; a baleen fishing line 

pulls taut a silver dorsal fin of a round white fish. 

A slate-blade knife slices along the grain of a caribou 

hindquarter; the ice cellar lined in willow branches is empty.

Saltwater suffuses into a flint quarry, offshore 

a thin layer of radiation glazes leathered walrus skin. 

Alongside shatters of a hummock, a marsh marigold 

flattens under three black toes of a sandhill crane.

A translucent sheep horn dipper skims a freshwater stream;

underneath, arctic char lay eggs of mercury.

Picked before the fall migration, cloudberries 

drench in whale oil, ferment in a sealskin poke.

A tundra swan nests inside a rusted steel drum; 

she abandons her newborns hatched a deep crimson.*

*http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=2299

CIB

Kin 216: Yellow Galactic Warrior

I harmonize in order to question

Modeling fearlessness

I seal the output of intelligence

With the galactic tone of integrity

I am guided by the power of universal fire.

Each application of the synchronic order to realize a more integrated state of mind and being accelerates the entire evolution of the planet.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Muladhara Chakra  (Limi Plasma)

Blue Resonant Eagle/ Blue Spectral Hand - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 26

Jennifer Elise Foerster, Muscogee (Creek).

Jennifer Foerster
Preface

Before makers
there were maps.
There was skin. Stone.

There was time:
the ripening
of corn. Moonlight

and her shadow. Grief
given space: a circular
shelter. We stayed inside

for a number of days.
Stacked rocks around ourselves.
The clock was a gate.

There were highways.
Mined gashes.
We were slit, bled.

Slid to the ledge
of the dark province.

There were crosses: spiders
to sew shut the wounds
we reaped for you, Magdalena.*


*http://www.drunkenboat.com

Jennirfer Elise Foerster received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2007) and her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2003). From 2008-2010, Jennifer was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She has received a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, along with fellowships to attend Soul Mountain Retreat, Caldera Arts, the Naropa Summer Writing Program, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center. Foerster's first book of poems, Leaving Tulsa, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2013, and was a Shortlist Finalist for the 2014 PEN Open Book Award. Of German, Dutch, and Muscogee descent, Jennifer is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Jennifer grew up living internationally, and now lives in San Francisco while concurrently pursuing her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.*

www.jenniferfoerster.com

MEN

Kin 215: Blue Resonant Eagle

I channel in order to create

Inspiring mind

I seal the output of vision

with the resonant tone of attunement

I am guided by the power of accomplishment.

World Noosphere Day. Feast of Mary Magdalene (Catholic). an utterly clear mental field is required to create laser-like focus.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.

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www.13moon.com

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)

White Rhythmic Wizard/ White/ White Planetary World-Bridger - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 25

dg nanouk okpik, Inupiak/ Inuit.

Split Bone

by dg okpik

A break in the blood vessel from split bone

like a porcupine quill pierces my ulcerated foot.

Decrepit I walk with wolverines

on the edge of the ice shelf. I neatly stitch

with two threads a cyst containing blood.

In the opposite poles of a cell a shallow alcove,

of the northern Pacific a right whale swims

in a rancid blue stew full of milk salmon

which feed brown bear. I transfuse quantum

in gradients of one minus energy, a closed universe,

foraging death in a another body, mixing with black

blood, I become a carrion beetle, bones outside.

A figure shaped like an inverted heart

stiffly mingling between body blue inuas spirits.*

*www.drunkenboat.com

dg nanouk okpik is Inupiaq, Inuit originally from Alaska's Artic Slope. Her family resides in Barrow, Alaska. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast College. 

okpik is a recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship. Her poetry has been published in Touchstone, Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, Many Mountains Moving, Poet Lore, Washington Square, Red Ink, and Sentence. 

Her first chapbook was included in Effigies: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from the Pacific Rim (Salt Publishing, 2009). Recently she her poetry has been anthologized in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, (University of Arizona Press, 2011). okpik's first full-length book Corpse Whale is forthcoming in October 2012 from the University of Arizona Press.*

*http://dgokpik.com

IX

Kin 214: White Rhythmic Wizard

I organize in order to enchant

Balancing receptivity

I seal the output of timelessness

With the rhythmic tone of equality

I am guided by my own power doubled.

Calm indifference refers to bearing the slings and arrows of fate, the criticism and hostility of others; having equanimity in the face of loss or gain.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.

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www.tzolkincosmology.com

www.13moon.com

www.mayanmajix.com

The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Svadhistana Chakra (Kali Plasma)

Red Overtone Skywalker/ Red Solar Serpent - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 24

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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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)

Yellow Self-Existing Human/ Yellow Galactic Seed - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 23

Published on Nov 12, 2012

This video is from POETRY MATTERS, an educational project created by New Mexico CultureNet (www.nmcn.org) in partnership with Santa Fe Community College to benefit and inspire learners and teachers.

Sara Marie Ortiz is a twenty seven year old Acoma Pueblo memoirist, poet, scholar, aspiring filmmaker, youth trainer, and Indigenous Peoples advocate. She is a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts (BFA in Creative Writing, 2006), graduating from Antioch University Los Angeles with her MFA in Creative Writing in 2009. She has published and presented her work widely and is the recipient of several fellowships, scholarships, awards, and recognition for her nonfiction, poetry, academic study, and advocacy, among these the Truman Capote Literary Fellowship, The Brigham Young/Native American Literature Symposium Morning Star Award in Creative Writing, and the American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship.*

*www.localpoetsguild.wordpress.com

EB

Kin 212: Yellow Self-Existing Humans

I define in order to influence

Measuring wisdom

I seal the process of free will

With the self-existing tone of form

I am guided by the power of elegance.

The cosmos is a large sphere of becoming and returning that is encompassed in your being.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.

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www.tzolkincosmology.com

www.13moon.com

www.mayanmajix.com

The Sacred Tzolk'in

Muladhara Chakra  (Seli Plasma)