noonki kaahkiihkwe tikawi ceeliteeki (85) aahsanteeki ahsenisiipionki. meemeekwa-hka kati ciinkwia pyaaci piitilaanwi noonki peehkonteeki.
noonki peehkonteeki kiinte napale waawiyiisita (keešaakosita).
taaniši kiišikahki niiyaaha apiyani?
neemani-nko kati aakalaahšimaataweenki? toohkinanto mihtahkiši.
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10th Day of Green Corn Moon (2017)
(10 kiišiinkwia kiilhswa (2017))
Today, it’s a little hot (85) and sunny in the Great Miami River Valley. Tonight, it might thunderstorm and rain.
(noonki kaahkiihkwe tikawi ceeliteeki (85) aahsanteeki ahsenisiipionki. meemeekwa-hka kati ciinkwia pyaaci piitilaanwi noonki peehkonteeki.)
Tonight, the moon was just half full (waxing).
(noonki peehkonteeki kiinte napale waawiyiisita (keešaakosita).)
What’s the weather like where you’re at?
(taaniši kiišikahki niiyaaha apiyani?)
it is so hot here. I miss Indiana, here is a poem for you:
The stories are kept
sometimes wordless in my heart
living stories here
they will speak through sun and moon
Mother Earth and the waters
I can hear whispers
in a stream so faraway
calling me back home
the ancestors come visit
we emerged from the river
some say Canada
but we came out of water
we are life of the river
we met up with mound builders
not really so long ago
We’re tattoo people
stories written upon us
we carry them here
invisible tattoos now
they didn’t understand us
we see the tattoos
written across our bodies
they appear in time
just now they show me the way
just now they whisper my name