Subliminal ᐅᔾᔨᕆᙱᑕᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᔾᔭᐅᓂᖅ

Trees stack like cordwood.

Spruce boughs pile high in sacrifice.

The smoky immolation of a nation-to-nation

built on intimidation and incineration

of rights deemed irrelevant to racist development.

How much Death and disparagement,

contempt and malevolence,

before deep throat contractions to systemic imbalances

define our interactions with our own complex complexions?

Who can’t even look us back in the face without resentment.

Relationships are biased. Another frame of reference.

Another’s judgment reflected. Subjectively non-objective.

Ignoring consequences has certain connotations.

Condones vicious offences on Indigenous Nations.

Silences victims for generations,

the denied violence of assimilation.

Destroy sedition before it sets.

Put down an animal in public.

Abuse power to ease the pain.

Pine needles smoulder defiant aromas

resistant to the flame.