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Elise Paschen

An enrolled member of the Osage Nation, Elise Paschen was born in 1959 in Chicago. She is the daughter of renowned ballet dancer Maria Tallchief—she was America’s first major prima ballerina, and the first Osage Tribe

Ghost, Fountain

by Elise Paschen (b. 1959)

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— Gaetano Donizetti, “Lucia di Lammermoor”

                                                  Be remote
A while from malice and from murdering.
— Gwendolyn Brooks

water this fountain

where I am yoked

sun-break he holds

you how once I

this secret dark

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