Arctic Shaman’s Seance
Alaska, FictionThe snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket. The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the […]
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The snow fell quietly, covering the settlement in a thick white blanket. The shaman had told Okwana she’d recognize the […]
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Défilé de mode à Kotzebue (té), Alaska Read Post »
Le brouillard s’étira en dessous de nous, obscurcissant la terre et nous enveloppant dans un cocon gris et aveuglant. L’avion rugit, tangua de droite à gauche et finalement, après plusieurs tentatives d’atterrissage troublantes et avortées, il toucha…
La fête des baleines, le Nalukataq, Alaska Read Post »
Dans les tableaux et croquis d’autrefois, il est fréquent de voir les braves chasseurs de baleine lançant leurs harpons depuis leurs embarcations ouvertes, ballotés sur les hautes vagues de la mer. On y comptait les Japonais, les Basques, les Britann…
La chasse à la baleine, ancienne et moderne Read Post »
We were sitting on the steps of an orthodox church, its gold-tipped dome shimmering like a glorious crown in the
An Orthodox Tlingit in Alaska Read Post »
Master mountain sighs his enormity weeps in small gullies at the weight he holds, despairs of immensity, too big to
Master Mountain, Denali, Alaska Read Post »
He flies in ribbons like my hair undone
loosely in this arctic breeze
like a kite in the wind his long tail trailing
above melting icefloe, along costal freeze
Jaeger Bird, Barrow, Alaska Read Post »
Like a queen’s downy bed fluffed up for the loving featherlace wings drifting aloft they glide with the wind two
Cranes, Cook Inlet, Alaska Read Post »
It’s the call over still water echoing round the bay of my mind some yearning, undefined A loon owns this
Loon (on Lake Denise, Soldotna, Alaska) Read Post »
This crack in your iceflesh thawing like a crease in the mouth of your womb you are melting in sighs
Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska Read Post »
Razor clams here are the size of babies’ hands opened up to catch the midnight sun. They roll in with
Clamming in Ninilchik, Alaska Read Post »