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Upset Woman
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71 UpseT woman —after a drawing by Florence Napaaq Malewotkuk napaaq drew in ink the sure lines of anguish, a young woman nearly naked weeping so hard her hands could not hide her, her hands could not hold this grief passed down by the mothers, the grandmothers, the ones so old only stories could hold them. This woman is young, young enough to swallow all the sadness passed down to her, to make it her own. Her lover, a white man with a thousand promises in his misunderstanding advises her and so she letters with great care a caption in his language: Some men hate his wife ’cause she love other men. That why he hate her she crying now. She naked body. Pretty-soon love together again. as if each tear has nothing to do with the ocean, with the drowned, nothing to do with passing on to a newborn the names of the most recent dead, who still walk around to see how we think, what we say, how we feel. ...