Stadium Mocs
Rent from DeepDyve- Stadium Mocs
side to side the moccasins slideshuffle
left then right in the round dance
the toe and heel of the chicken dance
these mocs flex and stretch to the orange rimof the “don’t get me started” on the hoop dance
my sneak-up shoes are the same as my stadium mocs
I don’t hear the ref’s whistle to stop just the emcee’s call for another intertribal [End Page 127]
Chip Livingston is the author of the short story and essay collection Naming Ceremony (Lethe Press, 2014) and two poetry collections, Crow-Blue, Crow-Black (NYQ Books, 2012) and Museum of False Starts (Gival Press, 2010). His poetry and fiction have appeared in Ploughshares, New American Writing, Sub-tropics, Cincinnati Review, Apalachee Review, on the Poetry Foundation website, and in other journals and anthologies. He is on the creative nonfiction faculty in the “Low Rez” mfa program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the poetry faculty at the low-residency Mile High mfa program at Regis University in Denver. Visit www.chiplivingston.com.
