Loetscher, Cheryl

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Volume 29Issue 1 Spring/Summer Article 156-15-2009Pawhuska, 1880Cheryl LoetscherFollow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westviewPart of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Photography Commons, and the PoetryCommonsThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals atSWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westviewby an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For moreinformation, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu.Recommended CitationLoetscher, Cheryl (2009) "Pawhuska, 1880," Westview: Vol. 29 : Iss. 1 , Article 15.Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol29/iss1/15P aw h u sk a , 1880by Cheryl LoetscherCall me by that other name,the one worn like a capebefore you could read,when I dressed youin faith and deerskin leggingsfringed with elk teeth,when 36 chiefs still knew the signsfor grace and peace.Call me the name they carved at the base of an Osage fencerow the night you were born in a country where bluestem grasses and creeping groundcover buffered the rivers, and the leaven of solitude was still a proud legacy in a town where hunger held the door.W E S T V I E W 17

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