17347 SE 111 Avenue, Summerfield, FL 34491, USA

Deep Time

A white archeologist

Disturbs the resting

            Place of our ancestors

She carefully digs up

Our heritage

Painstakingly she

Sorts the bones

            And artifacts

She tells us the dig is important

It will reveal our history

The dig lets us look back in time

Look back so we can

            See how we lived

We can look into Deep Time

Important discoveries

Artifacts help us understand

Bones will prove her theories

We do not need your discoveries

Your people had a chance to

            Understand our culture

You chose instead to slaughter

We know how our ancestors lived

We know our traditions and stories

We already look back into your

            White Colonial Deep Time

Grandmother Grandfather

They link us to the past

Your White Time is not our time

Deep Time is to us as the present

An Inconvenient Store

 Almost midnight

Gassed up

At the store

On the corner

I run in quickly

Just needed milk

A pack of cigarettes

And bread

The young lady

At the register

Gives me the eye

As I came in

An old lady

Clutches her

Purse tighter

When I walked by

Pay cash

Grabbed the change

Left without

Looking back