Evidence of RedFirst, night opened out. Bodies took root from rotting saltand seawater into evidence of red life.Relentless waves pumped tidal airinto a single heartbeat.In the pulp of shadow and space,water sucked our people from sleep.That'ÂeÂ(tm)s how it all began. At leastthat'ÂeÂ(tm)s all we can remember to tell.It began with water and heartbeat.In minutes we tunneled throughcorn woman'ÂeÂ(tm)s navel into tingesof moist red men and women.

Yawning, we collected our chins,knees, breasts, and sure-footed determination.A few thousand years beforeMoses parted the Red Sea, and theGod with three heads was born in the Middle East,the Choctaw people dancedour homeland infra red.Finally when the stranger'ÂeÂ(tm)s armsreached to strangle the West,Grandmother eavesdroppedon the three-faced deitywho said that chaos was coming.When he turned his lips and tried to kiss hershe made it rain on him.'ÂeÂoeMaybe you'ÂeÂ(tm)ve forgottenyou were born of water and women,'ÂeÂshe said, walking away laughing.