Waa’aka’ follows the title character

and oral histories

which called for the killers' swift execution

enlightening celebration of Indigenous foods and Southwestern flavors

We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers

Pitiful children Waa’aka’ follows the title characterThis poem begins where Bulimia ends or maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where the differential diagnosis is confused by decades of self made violence. Poverty, colonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter one day, if not now Part self interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird's second collection detail the author's ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions