| In Kotzebue, the Ravens stay all winter The Ravens can survive. But the other birds are gone by October. The sky is empty of flurry and activity that only feathered wings can fill. The month of May and the Seagulls come, Bringing with them A Proclamation of Spring. Their voices like laughter fill the air with song. The Seagulls, They fill the air with sound and the patterns of their flight. Joy returns to Kotzebue. Though it is cold, I leave the door open to hear the song of the gull. Last night the ducks came, The geese will be next And then one by one, others will return. Their feathers falling to the earth while laughing children pick them up. I will sing a song on the shoreline Raising my arms high, holding a feathered fan, dancing, Glad to be alive. Yes! I sing a song that decrees, I have survived like the Ravens. I have made it through another Winter. |
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| The Seagulls Returned |
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| Information: Kotzebue, Alaska is 35 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. |
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| Written by a Wyandotte Woman |
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