And the Lands Red, Too

This isn't to say

that there weren't

calamities

as a result

of the confluence

of native and European folk,

that the land did not run red

with blood

from the moment they met,

the land anguished periods

in which disparate cultures

tried to reconcile each other

to very different existences;

admitting one thing

should not negate another,

even if that is what recent observers

have tried so hard

to say.

If you miss rhymes

in my work

that's what you won't find

in recent histories,

too.