Poet Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain) is author of seven books including Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (2017). She also makes poem films with fellow Ojibwe and indigenous artists. Heid teaches in the low-res MFA program at Augsburg College.
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What holds water in a droptension that holds humans in
between their sweet skins
water holds usher arms baystide of bloodbeat so close just our skins betweenhome and oce…