7pm in April

and i hate everything

my legs your shoulders at the neck

remember old life

against new

that deep bend in the spring

/ / iwidi giiwedinong

the song “Gypsy,”

definitive s o f t w a v e

separation

prismatic v o i d

this water this water this water

green wood under the kettle

watch air traffic, always this

t r a f f i c

Nicole Wallace is a poet, musician, and Managing Director of The Poetry Project. She is a part of the Anishinaabeg hand drumming group Nishnaabekwewag Negamonid and a member of the Indigenous Womxns Collective NYC. Her first chapbook, WAASAMOWIN, is forthcoming from IMP, December 2018. Originally from Gakaabikaang, located in what is currently called Minnesota, she is a descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe).