Ron Riekki Quotes

Wawashkesh
these apples are
for you,
red on the white
snow,
their cider tang
will find you
in the gray woods.
There is a story
how a snake
offered an apple,
so sweet, so cold,
those bite was
sorrow.

-excerpt from Eric Gadzinski's poem "Wawashkeshgiwis" from The Way North