Eulogy, a Poem by Sherman Alexie

My mother was a dictionary.Article continues after advertisementRemove Ads She was one of the last fluent speakers of our tribal language. She knew dozens of words that nobody else knew. When she died, we buried all of those words with her. My mother was a dictionary.Article continues after advertisementRemove Ads She knew words that had … Continue reading Eulogy, a Poem by Sherman Alexie