For Every Dead Buffalo by tripp j crouse

tripp j crouse (they/them) is Two-Spirit Ojibwe. tripp serves as a poetry reader for Anomalous Press, or ANMLY, and has poetry published or forthcoming in The Yellow Medicine Review, beestung, Rising Phoenix Review and elsewhere. their first poetry chapbook, "For Ever Dead Buffalo" was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. . . .  For Every Dead Buffalo is the first stop on the ghost train, Leviathan, charging its course through the waste-landscape of Indigenous diaspora, identity, heartbreak, grief, etc.  This chapbook is the culmination of an intensive writing journey across a year of personal growth. The poems contained herein are a selection of how identity is the amalgamation of generational and cultural understanding as well as living in relationship to the land no matter how far from home.  While these poems are deeply personal for me, I hope that others find kinship and relationship with these words. Chockfull of lines, references, and paraphrases from some of my literary and mu