Karenne Wood, an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, holds an MFA in poetry and a PhD in linguistic anthropology. She is the author of two poetry collections, Markings on Earth (2000)and Weaving the Boundary (2016). Her poems have appeared in such journals as the Kenyon Review, Orion,and Shenandoah.
“Vets Stream into Standing Rock.” Photo: Joe Brusky/Flickr
for Zhooniyah Ogitchida, with gratitude
He walked to the frontline in his Army combat shirt.On it, his sergeant badge, name tape, U…