Streaming

by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

  to those suffering fires, floods, tornadoes, quakes, dust, and great storms of injustices throughout all these days;

  is with love for all, especially Travis, Vaughan, Hazel, Deja, Andrez, Alice, Aariana, Skuya, Edward, Edwin, Dec, Caesar, Johnny, Sawin, Sara, Sienna, Sam, Athena, Malcolm, Benjamin, and all the kids—thank you all for your presence;

  for Stephanie;

  for Randye & Andrea Beth, and Jay;

  for Caroline, Molly, Amelia, Elizabeth, Erika, Julie, and Linda;

  for Allan Kornblum, Chris Fischbach, Anitra Budd, and Coffee

  House for sustaining the life of the work;

  for all the supporters of the Red Dust Project

  & those poems in this mix;

  for my father, a wonderful human being,

  & in memory of my mother, Hazel,

  & everyone before.

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  COLOPHON

  Streaming was designed at Coffee House Press, in the

  historic Grain Belt Brewery’s Bottling House near

  downtown Minneapolis. The text is set in Garamond.

  ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE is an American Book Award–winning author. Her previous poetry volumes include Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, and Burn. She wrote Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir, and is the editor of Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, Effigies, and Effigies II. She currently serves as a distinguished writer at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters and is currently at work on a film, Red Dust: the dirty thirties, chronicling mixed-blood and Native life.