WHEREAS Poems Viola van de Sandt What happens when you know

What happens when you know what's coming

Snow is a creature of many secrets

convinced that she’s too pampered to handle the wild

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

WHEREAS Poems Viola van de Sandt What happens when you knowBy: Layli Long Soldier Published by Graywolf Press, 2017 03 07 Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Dont worry, you and your daughter will learn