Under the White Sun

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Under the white sun,

the twisted people came

with their twisted God.

Under the white sun,

they twisted the throats

of those they encountered.

Eventually, they twisted the land.

Now they have twisted the weather.

Today, most of us are twisted, but we

should pray for those few who are not.

Maybe they can shelter us, however

briefly, from the blazing colonial sun

that has incinerated our shadowed

blood for four centuries now.



Adrian C. Louis was born and raised in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. A new book of poems, Random Exorcisms, is due from Pleiades Press in 2016. More info at Adrian-C-Louis.com.