Kind of Like Wishing
Areas of thought
Huge and open
90’s young warrior
Shoots his first deer, I sit
Kind of Like Wishing
He’s my son
Tlingit memory
Foam on open sea
Raven’s Tail Blanket
Swaying on dancers, I wear it
Kind of Like Wishing
My grandmother’s gift
Ancestral dreams
Seaweed swimming oceans
Grandchildren singing
Tlingit, I’m speaking
Kind of Like Wishing
My future
Spirit beings
Rocks of island formations
Hoonah elders know
'Lxeis' is my name,
Kind of Like Wishing
Kind of Like Wishing
Names
Tlingit meanings transcending
(My Tlingit name Lxeis', was translated by T'akdeintaan elder, Katherine Mills of Hoonah, as “kind of like wishing” -- Lxeis' was her mother’s name)