E89: Bryce Stevenson – Actual Shifts in the Wind
Update: 2025-02-07
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In this episode, I talk with Ojibwe chef Bryce Stevenson who is also the owner of Miijim in La Pointe, Wisconsin, an island in Lake Superior. He’s also a pretty talented poet whose work is included in the zine “Heart Rations: Indigenous Food Poetry.” Bryce is a creative guy who also takes up carpentry work during the off season, a necessity for folks who work on an island like La Pointe.
Nininjiin
A poem by Bryce Stevenson
as a bowl, hysterically
holding juice squeezed
fresh from flesh, burnt
festered, boiled
weathered, leathered
skin until muscles
cooked within. Bones
split, flavors grown no
modifier nor amplifier
in need. Too hot
my hands to carry
blistering dish, gravity
given gift - re-room
the hecatomb - a day
minus the hours
sleep & work spent
in the only room
in the house where
existence is ensured
through the destruction
of life - the results of
which, wasted.
Nininjiin
A poem by Bryce Stevenson
as a bowl, hysterically
holding juice squeezed
fresh from flesh, burnt
festered, boiled
weathered, leathered
skin until muscles
cooked within. Bones
split, flavors grown no
modifier nor amplifier
in need. Too hot
my hands to carry
blistering dish, gravity
given gift - re-room
the hecatomb - a day
minus the hours
sleep & work spent
in the only room
in the house where
existence is ensured
through the destruction
of life - the results of
which, wasted.
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