My body belonged to a land it didn't know existed

Jordy Wiens

my body belonged to a land

it didn't know existed

until 2023,

until we saw,

until we felt,

until we supped.

my body belonged to a land

it didn't know existed

until i heard her lilting voice,

rising from the waves,

rising from the moss and stones and dirt,

She welcomed home her children

from a concerted effort spanning since

1949, since

1919, since

the Great Hunger, since

600 years ago.

i live with the memory,

the yearning,

the aching,

to go back.

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AUTHOR BIO

Jordy Wiens (he/they) is a queer writer, theatre artist, and educator, living and working in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (colonially known as Edmonton, AB), who graduated the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education. He has three published short stories: "The Unfortunate Happy in The Waggle, curated by Annette Lapointe (2013); and, "The Blank Slate" and "Life Remains" won the Collins Writing Contest in 2017 and 2018, being published as part of anthologies titled Monster and Flight, respectively. Since then, he's been furiously writing, teaching, and creating theatre.