And I Walk On
Cast Bronze, Poem
2023
Exhibited at Four Mile Historic Park (Denver, CO)
I acknowledge that I am on the ancestral and unceded land of the Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), Núu-agha-tuvu-pu (Ute), Hinono’cin Biitoowu (Arapaho) and Očhéthi Šakówin (Oglala Sioux)
I walk
I listen
I imagine
But I cannot know
How it felt
to watch
The arrival
settlement
and cultivation
Of this well-worn trail
As it became inhabited
-stolen-
by another
But never forsaken
By those
Who walked here
First.