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Whirlwind Woman (Arapaho)<\/h1>\n

by Lorraine Schein<\/h3>\n

Art by Helena Domenic<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\"\"I am not afraid<\/i>, the girl said to her mother<\/p>\n

as the sky grew dark as a raven\u2019s wing,<\/p>\n

thundered like a herd of stampeding bison.<\/p>\n

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When the great tornado approached them<\/p>\n

she ran out toward it alone<\/p>\n

though the rest of her family had taken shelter<\/p>\n

and begged her not to go.<\/p>\n

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She turned her face up to its winds<\/p>\n

as if they were the sun\u2019s warm rays,<\/p>\n

raised her arms to the fierce vortex<\/p>\n

as in worship of an ancient god.<\/p>\n

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As the whirlwind embraced her,<\/p>\n

her moccasins fell off, her legs dangling.<\/p>\n

Her black braids whipped and swirled about her head.<\/p>\n

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Caught, the girl rose in its circles–<\/p>\n

her voice became its howl,<\/p>\n

her body spun into turbulent gusts.<\/p>\n

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Transformed, she became Whirlwind Woman–<\/p>\n

she who brings the blessed rain,<\/p>\n

life rebuilt after destruction,<\/p>\n

visions of change and new hope for the future.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons,<\/i> Scientific American<\/i>, NewMyths<\/i> and Michigan Quarterly<\/i>, and in the anthologies Wild Women <\/i>and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath.<\/i> The Futurist\u2019s Mistress<\/i>, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe<\/i>, is out now from Autonomedia. https:\/\/autonomedia.org\/product\/the-lady-anarchist-cafe\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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