Red Eye (Midnight Flight)
“Red Eye (Midnight Flight)” by Burdette Birdinground, Salish Kootenai College
Art/Photography
Student 2012
Raven Looks at the Moon
“Raven Looks at the Moon” by Crystal Kaakeeyáa Worl Demientieff, Institute of American Indian Arts
Intersections on the Journey to Higher Learning
Contemplate what an intersection is, or what meaning it may hold, in relation to your journey as a passenger, driver, or pedestrian. Interactions at these points hold a deeper significance. Intersections are defined as crossroads, the act or fact of …
Smoke Signals
From miles away you can see the smoke, billowing up into the clear sky. It is a clean white smoke, like a cloud forming in the sky. The wind is calm, and it is just another ordinary day. I pull …
I Am Made of Cardboard
i am made of cardboard, subway steam and the iron grate. i hover on the forgotten side of town, blending in with the weeds that tunnel up through the cracks of the sidewalk, avoiding strangers, hawkers, bible stalkers come to …
Daisy
Grown from ancestral clay, arising through cracked earth, reaching toward falling stars. Unknown to the daisy, she’s the last of her kind, still she grows toward the sky. This beautiful flower has one last protector. A boy. He wants only …
We All Look Alike
It’s Saturday night. Mamí unwinds the hot rollers from her hair. She stands in her bra and panties; not the large white ones she wears underneath the matching polyester pant and top set—the clothes she cleans in—but the purple bottoms …
Thunder and Lightning
Medicine Man was in love with Turtle Woman. She was the daughter of Sittingbear. Many men in the camp competed for her attention, although they never won it. Medicine Man did not let this stop him, however. He had asked …
Of Hand Blooming
Blood slowly traces braided folds of his palm, unwilling to stay dormant. Nomadic. Barren erosions on his skin remind him of thirsty reservation washes, endlessly needing a flood. Gradually his blood looks symmetrical and proportionate, too perfect, like his blood …