” and “cold rain / field mice rattle the dishes / buson’s koto

are a stunning literary achievement

showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral

Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking

and the celebration of that which remains

Fire Starters memoir ” and “cold rain /Looking for a little mischief after finding an old flare gun, Ron and Ben find themselves in trouble when the local gas bar on Agamiing Reserve goes up in flames, and they are wrongly accused of arson by the sheriff's son. As the investigation goes forward, community attitudes are revealed, and the truth slowly comes to light.