사진 일기: "An American Sunrise"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joy Harjo, "An American Sunrise: Poems" (2019)

 

원주민들이 하루 아침 살던 땅을 뺏기고 미 정부군에 의해 

미시시피 강 서쪽으로 내몰렸던 1830년대의 강제이주에

관해 그 후손인 시인이 쓴 서사 시집이다.

 

아래는

실린 시 "Mama and Papa have the Going Home Shiprock Blues"에서:

 

Song 1.

Beef Issue at Fort Sill

 

We were coralled then

Like horses, like captives

Like slaves. We were

Anything but horses, captives,

And slaves. But we were

hungry.

 

Song 3.

Soldiers

 

We were ready to defend the land

And the people against those

Who wanted what was not theirs to take.

We were called heathen

But who is heathen here?