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The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store is the award-winning collection of Choctaw/Chickasaw poet, Phillip Carroll Morgan. The poems range across physical and spiritual geographies of the indidgenous Americas, translating ancient mythos into contemporary poetics.
List of contents
- PART I. Facing East
- Construction
- Council Fire
- Flag of Mercy
- Closer to the Moon
- Ceremony
- More Like Children
- Holhpokunna The Garden of the Bumblebees
- Mixed Blood
- Mother Yakni
- The Great Society
- Rain Dancers
- The Carpenter's Dilemma
- like a full moon over a thunderhead
- The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store
- PART II. Turning North
- Ochre Hole
- Revolutionaries
- The Big Woodpecker
- when you foresee the unforeseeable
- Diphthongs to Dipterons
- Stepping Out
- New York
- Earth Life
- Endangered Species
- Shimmering Thread
- Hyphenated Winter
- University Library
- Run
- Water Planet
- Winter Trees
- I Have Some Advice For You
- PART III. Facing West
- The Two-Pronged Stick
- Father Luak
- World's Largest Rez
- Journal Entry: March 23rd, Chihuahuan Desert
- Am I Seeing?
- halito akhana hello my friend
- Ballad of Kenneth Ruth
- Anumpa Apesa a Iti Hikia: The Judgment of Standing Trees
- Click Beetle
- Life's Work:
- I Found the Earth in Snails
- Snake Bags
- We Spoke French Throughout the Desert
- He Showed Them Snakes
- most cynics would laugh
- On the Nile
- All About Wind
- On That Great Plateau
- A Desert Love Poem
- PART IV. Turning South
- creator
- The Story of The Seeds
- No Goodbye
- Anumpa Boklukfi Hilha The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
- The Dogs Did Not Follow
- Black Crow
- The Lost Ponds
- White Bone Hooks
- Aiena e-Taloa We Sing Together
- Meadowlark, Large Family of the Plains
- Ragged Owl Nest
- A Popular Theme
- Bohpoli
- Mobius Garden
- Vegetable River
- Fire and Wind
- Fried Rabbit
- Digging Deeper
- Before Dawn
About the author
Phillip Carroll Morgan is an enrolled Choctaw/Chickasaw bi-lingual poet who has enjoyed a 25-year artistic collaboration with his painter-sculptor wife, Kate Arnott Morgan. This collaboration has seen the birth of three children, as well as the production of The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the 2002 Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry. He has worked as a newspaper editor, business executive, building tradesman, guitar player, and rancher. He is currently a PhD student in Native Literature at the University of Oklahoma.
