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He has also organized readings for Poets Against the War.ĭo you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. He is the current director of the Columbia Writers Series, an Honorary Board Member of The Mountain Writers Series, and co-advisor of the Native American Student Council at Clark College. Excerpts from THE AMERICAN CORPSE (10 poems) were published in Apex of the M in 1995. CERRO de la ESTRELLA (Logan Elm Press, 1992) was chosen for The Governor's Award for the Arts in Ohio, 1992. Gerard Donnelly Smith, a poet and musician, teaches creative writing, literature and composition at Clark College in Vancouver WA. Placing tobacco and feathers at your grave, The Nations will carry you back to Fort Sill. They will drum until the walls come down. Placing tobacco and feathers at evil's door, The Nations, who fear no evil, will gather. You suffer their depravities and degradations.Īt the stone temple of The Brotherhood of Death, Sins of sons and fathers insult your honour ĭemand exposure, but trapped in tortured silence Paradoxes surround your head's glass tomb. Sail, from eyes to eyes, wearing your grim face.Ĭursing Custer, Buffalo Soldiers pursued you: Your headless soul still searches for your skull. Headless, beneath concrete and stone pyramid,Įagle stretching above assembled bones, you do not rest. Geronimo's Skull A Poem by Gerard Donnelly Smith

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