the prayer song
I am singing

to bring back
your stolen sons

whose sons and sons
and their missing bones

are unsung geese
lost in a country

across the water
ni-châpanak

I’ve thrown back
your names;

nâmoya kiyawaw you are not
Charlotte, Sarah, Mary

eKwa Christians and
nâmoya kiyawaw môniyaskwewak. you are not white women

â-haw, ni-châpanak
kayâs ochi nikâwimahk

nâtobta
my song, nikamowin

this prayer song
I am singing.

êy-hey!

Gregory Scofield