Ancestor Moon is a Shakespearian sonnet. The topic of the poem is based in pre-contact time. It is lyrical and romantic poem. It is indirectly from historic stories of when and where young men and women met. That an acquaintance or even a love at first site could happen. For many tribes the practice was arranged marriages. To interrupt that practice was unusual, but perhaps not uncommon. Like a Shakespearian sonnet, the topic is impetuous love. Also similar, it uses natural imagery to express the emotion of the poem. Though these images are in North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, in the homelands of my tribes. This poems show that our topics and form as Native writers can stand with any in the world.
