Marie Huskey

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sometimes i hide in the darkness of the privacy that i created. i hide my head deep down from even myself because i’m afraid to examine what may lay there, quietly under a deep roar in the back of my subconscious. i hide and i wonder when i’ll ever get out.

maybe i don’t want out…

maybe i don’t have time to be honest. maybe i find comfort under the lightly veiled light that i’ve succumbed to. maybe i find comfort in the darkness that i’ve created for an audience of one.

maybe i have no time to be patient. maybe i find comfort in the rush that i’ve put myself under. maybe i find comfort in the tomb of pressuring time, in the lightly veiled light that i’ve succumbed to…

i get scared, because maybe.. none of it mattered to anyone, but me…

everyday –
i escape behind –
windows, sacrificially barred-
hiding uncomfortable promise.

an emotional
exhibitionist –
you cry and sing, openly.

i am engulfed in a silence spoken so loudly that my ears are growing deaf and it is only my hand that can speak what needs to be spoken

for the first time
today –
i didn’t see myself
the way that you do.

i exhibit

i exhibit
the perceived dangers
of closeness
and i wear it well.
no one is better suited
to wear this suit of armor.
this wearable wall
of impenetrable defense.

Links of Aleut Story Talk

Bringing the Circle Together
A Native American Film Series

Native Gatherings

Free screening of Aleut Story in LA! w/guest Marie Huskey

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Aleut Story

Free Screening of Aleut Story, with special guest author/poet Marie Huskey (Unangan/Aleut).

Free Screening of Aleut Story, with special guest author/poet Marie Huskey (Unangan/Aleut).
Thursday, October 23, 2008
7pm
Aleut Story

In the turbulence of war, the Aleuts of Alaska would redefine themselves – and America. From indentured servitude and being put into concentration camps during World War II, to Congress and the White House, this is the incredible story of the Aleuts’ decades-long struggle for our nation’s ideals. Special guest author/poet Marie Huskey (Unangan/Aleut) to start the screening.

The film series was established to provide quality documentaries and films by and about Native Americans, and bring together a central gathering place where discussion and news can be shared with the community and its supporters.

For More information on the film series please nafilmseries@aol.com or visit www.mypsace.com/nafilmseries

The film series is held at the National Center for Preservation of Democracy located at 111 North Central Avenue, between 1st Street and Central Avenue, in downtown Los Angeles.

(Sponsored in Association with the Japanese American National Museum, National Center for Preservation of Democracy, the Southern California Indian Center, Inc., and Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center)