"History" (Gaa Ezhiwebag)

We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers

and oral histories

and ardent activist for Indian rights- their marriage started with a shared vision to work on behalf of Indians

Pitiful children "History" (Gaa Ezhiwebag)This poem begins where Bulimia ends or maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where the differential diagnosis is confused by decades of self made violence. Poverty, colonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter one day, if not now Part self interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird's second collection detail the author's ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions