Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Buckle: Layne Kalbfleisch

The Buckle is the third blog in a series of articles from the 14th edition of the SeedBroadcast agri-culture Journal.  Due to the rapidly changing and challenging times of COVID19 we have postponed the printing of this issue until later in the year but hope that you can access this poignant and timely edition on line and past issues here. 

Thank you so much Layne for your contribution.


The Buckle
Layne Kalbfleisch
February 9, 2020

I’m a braided Indian
A Woodlands Indian
Ojibway
Living among Tewa
Saying Keresan words

Creator hears my prayers
Three names for Grandmother
Three names for Thank You
Howpa Hanu!

Cornmeal in my right hand
Tobacco in my left
Heya Hey!

My Grandmother was a Celtic knot
Scot Ojibway
Who was that woman at the Newberry Hotel?


Coyote sounds in the heart labyrinth
Christmas Day
An abandoned stable
How perfect
This is my home
The old ones told me

The Piedra Lumbre has a space
Between mesas
Orphan
Montosa
Kitchen
And Chimney Rock
Blessed Yucca

How did Gibson Gene know?

Cerro Pedernal  in the hypothetical middle
The Weaver
Spider Woman
Changing Woman
That’s what I hear

But like an ellipsis
It’s the space between
The omission
What’s not said

Ravens help.

Layne Kalbfleisch, M.Ed., Ph.D., is an educational psychologist, teacher and cognitive neuroscientist who studies the relationship between talent and disability and supports problem-solving and ingenuity across life.  She is the founder and CEO of 2E Consults ™ LLC, a practice that serves families and children, and organizations that support families and children in New Mexico, Virginia, and across the US.  She teaches in the education department at Northern New Mexico College in Española, New Mexico, and lives in Abiquiu, in view of the Cerro Pedernal.  She is from Boweting, Michigan, and a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of the Ojibway.    



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