A small room behind a bay window. A single bed, a table and chair, and a sink. I could manage something larger, with more conveniences, but I could never match the view.

Too many books brought home at once sit like frozen dinners to be sifted through then left unread for a beef dip and fries at the pub.

Sometimes this sifting stares back as poems. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence (Winnipeg: Albeiter Ring, 2011) sat among these books, until I read it last year as part of my coarse work.

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pandemics, 15
parenting, 128
     as an honour, 123
     attachment parenting, 130
     demonstrate qualities of
          leadership, 145
     paid parental leave, 128
     precolonial indigenous parenting
          techniques, 127
     raising our boys as agents of
          patriarchy, 60
     traditional Nishnaabeg parenting
     values, 130
patience, 108