Migration Tears  

By Michael Kabotie (Lomawywesa), 1987. 

Michael Kabotie or Lomawywesa, son of the artist Fred Kabotie, was born in 1942 at Shungopavi. He is of the Hopi Sinnum, Water/Snow clan, and he is a painter, lithographer, serigrapher, goldsmith and silversmith. In this book of poetry he recreates Hopi traditions for modern Indians in bold, traditional strokes.
 
54 pp.

$10.00 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-32-8

selections from

Migration Tears: Poems about Transitions

RUBBER BANDS
The wind making
rubber bands out of
air
The river making
rubber bands out of
water
The Beatles making
rubber bands out of
sounds
Simon Ortiz making
rubber bands out of
words
Charles Loloma making
rubber bands out of
metal
and time making
rubber bands out of
us all.

REAGANOMICS
Shungopavi plaza
the buffalo are
dancing
Across the valley
Shipaulavi plaza
filled with buffalo
dancers
Walpi near the clouds
the kachina preparing
their blessings
and
the purification moon
beams on us
My studio plaza
chaos with colors
pulsating with
British Rocker
Rod Stewart
Reaganomics clarified
I rush outside for a
lung full of fresh air
before that too is
trickled to us
Back inside I cry
for the coming hardships
but
drums will always
beat in our plazas.

Table of Contents

Hopid
Walrus Kokopolu
New Dawn Waitress
17th Brentwood Mesa
Stuccoed Cubes
Eaglet Flight #583
Petite Minus Five
Under Three
Rubber Bands
Kachinum
The Alcoholic
Coming of Day
Easyway Rainbow
The Buffalo Dancer
Suicide Lane
Our Land No More Forever
Flower of Rising Sun
Illusive Visions
Red Outhouse
Nightmare
Cass
Labajada Hill
Transistor Windows
Reaganomics
Lightnings in Hand
Grand Canyon National Park
Lost Youth
Trilobite Flakes
The Pecking Order
Priestly Bead Gourds
1:00 P.M. Chfistown
Thanksgiving '79
10:40 Scottsdale Sunspots
Between
Glossary