A Whorl of Poetry

Index of Authors

Dream On

Chrystos has written at least the following books:

• Dream On (1991)
• Fire Power (1995)
• Fugitive Colors (1995)
• In Her I Am (1993)
• Not Vanishing (1988)

It all started because I gave her my best chair with the black velvet cushion embroidered with red roses & she sat in it like it was a disease She said How can you live like this I said How can you live like that she said Don't get smart with me I said I'm always smart I have too many brains it's not my fault genetics She said I don't think you're eligible I said I'm still unmarried she said That has nothing to do with it I think I am through here I said I'll never let you through here Not if I have anything to say about it -- From "Interview with the social worker" Dream On (1991), p. 27.

Links: There is a small Chrystos page online, which includes the two poems "In Her I Am" and "We Cut Off Our Hair". Voices from the Gaps has a Chrystos page with a biography, bibliography, and links, as well as a poem from Not Vanishing. There is a great interview with Chrystos at The Gully.com. More Chrystos, from Not Vanishing: WINTER EVENING in the northern mountains Moon is a silver turtle moving slowly through stars