Wawashkeshthese apples arefor you,red on the whitesnow,their....

“ Wawashkeshthese apples arefor you,red on the whitesnow,their cider tangwill find youin the gray woods.There is a storyhow a snakeoffered an apple,so sweet, so cold,those bite wassorrow.--excerpt from Eric Gadzinski's poem "Wawashkeshgiwis" from The Way North ”

Ron Riekki

From : The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works