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America, a laboring woman. She’s been at it for 240 years, trying to push out new life. Her promise.
An inevitable truth.
Her bistre belly round, tight with child
she’s been here before many times
her amniotic Eden.
The nurse feeds her chipped ice. America stands,
Marches through the sanitized arteries of the hospital.
Beneath incandescent cold. With each Revolution
her cervix dilates.
But this baby’s breech.
No crown, yet holy.
Breaking water,
America seethes.
Shamed by her rapacious offspring, and the bleaching of their stirp sins.
Her bistre belly round,
Tight with child.
Feverish now.
Her children fight in the streets. Cain done killed Abel
and left his body laying
on the frozen ground up at Wounded Knee. Now Abel’s blood
hallows the riverbed
at Standing Rock.
Can you hear America screaming?
Our mother.
A thousand tied tongues
attempting to extirpate the bullets
and bleed the old abscesses caused by the Cross.
Will you sage the wounds on her body and weave a cradle
of sweet grass and willow
to hold her promise?
because we are still here
wiping the sweat from her brow, whispering in her ear,
to just keep breathing.

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from The Hummingbird's Dance, released June 30, 2022
Voice: Rosetta Peters
Music: JG Everest
Recorded and Mixed by Ben Durrant at Crazy Beast Studio, MPLS
Words written by Rosetta Peters
Music composed & performed by JG Everest

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Rosetta Peters + JG Everest Minneapolis, Minnesota

Based in Mni Sota Makoče, Poet Rosetta "Rosie" Peters and Composer / Multi-instrumentalist JG Everest met in 2016 and first performed together on The Buffalo Show in 2017. They have since collaboratively created an impressive collection of Poetry + Music pieces showcased on their debut album, The Hummingbird's Dance. (2022) ... more

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