Alaskan
Native writer
Suzi Vaara Williams
essays:
A
Chilkat Weaving Adventure
Tlingit
Textiles
The
Essence of Chilkat Weaving
poetry:
Five
Weavers Gathered
Follow
the Dream
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Five
weavers gathered
Sleeping
surrounded by weavings and designs
Colored
designs, sketched in pencil
Muted
and pale ghosts of life:
Raven
diving on a creamy sky
Delicately
holding the sun
A
Sisiutl swimming in a foggy sea
Large
eyes staring, seeking
Raven,
enmeshed, flowing from dark to light
Endlessly
entwined -- yin and yang
Bold
Mink, vibrantly glowing
With
a mischievous grin
Creamy
oatmeal yarn
spilling
time
Echoes
of the future
speaking
through the past
infant
weavings
preparing
to Dance
©1996
Suzi Vaara Williams
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