Pitiful sports and structural inequality

and structural inequality

"our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are

and define us--and wield even the power to restore a broken family

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler

Pitiful sports and structural inequalityThis poem begins where Bulimia ends or maybe, just maybe, when it started. Where the differential diagnosis is confused by decades of self made violence. Poverty, colonialism, god, all prisms that will shatter one day, if not now Part self interrogation, part confession, part hospital diary, the intense, heartbreakingly frank poems in Brandi Bird's second collection detail the author's ongoing struggles with eating disorders and depression, conditions