Sweetheart

by

Tiffany Midge

when we make love
press brown skins
& lovely bones

together

& are two half-
breed hearts
grooving

to the same fullblood
dance
we create not only

a whole indian song
(your chippetewa chants
to my lakota tune)

but sweetheart

in the dark
we become the
entire tribe.

© 1997 Tiffany Midge
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