“
My mother explains we are not legless
birds, mutants. If she'd had a better education
she would have know the word
"ambiguous," not quite fish, more than snake,
but settling into her limitations, she says
we are among the few (the Marines?).
The last Tuscarora Eel died
a generation ago, so we are left
Onondaga Eels among the Tuscarora,
opinions dismissed by politics of representation,
voices silenced in air and water.
”
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