This poem surfaced from immersion in Neolithic European artifact, script, and tomb illustrations and exposition from selected publications of Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas. Through archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, and place-based folkloric evidence, Gimbutas theorized the existence of a pre-patriarchal worldview in Europe. This poem comes from that past and that future and this present.
Read the poem this note is about, “Excarnation.”
Kim Parko is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of Cure All (Caketrain Press, 2010) and The Grotesque Child (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016). She lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is a professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts.