Things I Like

I like Kurt

Russel as

Captain Ron.

Grace Under

Pressure on in almost any circumstance.

I like dark planetariums.

I like when she wears them low-cut shirts and yoga pants.

I like unbroken snow on lodgepole pine boughs.

The rusty pump of a jay's forest communiqué.

And I like a rowdy ******'

Pride parade.

I like how

Hedges tells it like it is.

I like the sciences.

I like profound mysteries.

I like The

Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love"and the emergence of competing histories.

And I like the

Maple Leafscuz they remind me of me:inconsistent, fragile, internationally reviled.

I like allegories.

Cinderella stories.

Ahow ndinawemaaganiidog,

Wabanakwut ndigo(Hello my relatives, I am known as Grey Cloud)

Aapijii iinzan mewinzhaa kete-

Anishinaabeg gii-soongide’ewag(Apparently a long, long time ago the ancient Native people were strong hearted)

Kii-gichi-anokiiwag, kii-jiikendamoog(They worked hard, they were happy)

Aapijii iinzan kii-chikinaagoziwag(Apparently they really looked good)

Kete-anishinaabeg ogii-wiidookaawiiwaa shaaganaashiiwag(The ancient ones supported the Europeans)

Gegoo wiin wiikaa oniikesiidaa(Let’s not forget that)

Pizaaniigo nagamok!

Nagamok isina!(Go ahead and sing you guys! Sing real hard guys!)

I like speculative fiction: dark narrativesof the future that looms.

Of our impending doom.