Orlando White

  Orlando White is Diné from Sweetwater, Arizona. He received a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of LETTERRS (Nightboat, 2015), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, and Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009). The recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship, White teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. 

FINIS

bent by page

to form a sling,

the clasp of pap-

er enfolds thought

into type-projectile.

within word space

it will be an edge

weapon, carved

from ink, an ogive

of tone. it flits as

a consonant presage

by dint of occluding,

to skip endlessly

from digraph to

capacitance: a letter

charge, an arc point

to incise the tongue

                  to split.

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