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Obligations 2

Layli Long Soldier

      As we

                                        embrace          resist

                          the future       the present      the past

             we work          we struggle          we begin          we fail
​
to understand       to find        to unbraid        to accept        to question
 
              the grief          the grief           the grief          the grief

                          we shift         we wield           we bury​

                                    into light               as ash

                                                       across our faces

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Layli Long Soldier, "Obligations 2" from New Poets of Native Nations. Copyright © 2018 by Layli Long Soldier. Reprinted by permission of Layli Long Soldier.

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Submitted by Drone232 on June 25, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 611
Words 57
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1
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Layli Long Soldier

Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press; in 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. She was awarded a Whiting Writer’s Award in 2016. more…

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