{"id":99180,"date":"2021-06-27T00:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99180"},"modified":"2021-06-27T00:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:06:38","slug":"hour-15-kobade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-15-kobade\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 15 kobade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>kobade<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>arms linked in arms<\/p>\n<p>around<\/p>\n<p>arms around us all<\/p>\n<p>link after link after link<\/p>\n<p>forward and back<\/p>\n<p>from home to home<\/p>\n<p>to pieces of us in each other<\/p>\n<p>like the eggs in th eggs in the eggs<\/p>\n<p>of our great-grandmothers<\/p>\n<p>in our great-grand daughters<\/p>\n<p>concentrically linked to each other<\/p>\n<p>\u201cforward\u201d and \u201cback\u201d<\/p>\n<p>so that in our language<\/p>\n<p>there are no separate words for<\/p>\n<p>grandmother and grand daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we\u2019ve never been separated,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cforward\u201d or \u201cback\u201d<\/p>\n<p>only co-imagined pieces of each other<\/p>\n<p>forced into spaces too small to contain us<\/p>\n<p>\u201cforward\u201d or \u201cback\u201d-<\/p>\n<p>even in the limits of our DNA:<\/p>\n<p>the physical chain of <em>kobade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9r. l. elke \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0June 26\/21<\/p>\n<p>kobade is an Anishinaabebowin (the language of the Anishinaabe people of Turtle Island) word meaning the connection of generations moving &#8220;forward and back&#8221; (ie &#8211; we do not have a different word for grand daughter or grandmother&#8230;they are the same)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kobade &nbsp; arms linked in arms around arms around us all link after link after link forward and back from home to home to pieces of us in each other like the eggs in th eggs in the eggs of our great-grandmothers in our great-grand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99200,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99180\/revisions\/99200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}