Imagination of Kinship

I hear the words "the imagination of kinship" echo in the air a moment before waking.Some years later I awoke to my neighbor Ken Morrison's work on Kinship.

Imagining kinship is the way earth lasts,
the present subordinates to the past,
reimagines the woof of family weaving.

Family represents tribe, nation, world
Pious anthropologists think to save
but it is the business of family.

Grandma rouses a lot of ire suggesting
anthropologists study themselves.
They do not have a people just meaning.

As a clue of Navajo matriarchy and kinship naming (2005), imagining kinship occurs in Karl Magnuson's, The World from Within, in "The Utopian Imagination of Aboriginalism," and in "Virtual Kinship, Real Estate, and Diaspora Formation" and are elaborated in the Poetics of the Feminine, an instance where the thing exists in a way not previously known, as is said of consciousness. Kinship becomes an inquiry into mythogeme such as Bataille's death of myth and birth of anti-myth, also in Steve McCaffery's, Prior to meaning: the protosemantic and poetics (45) who applies Prigogine's physics to poetry. I heard Prigogine say that poetry and physics are one. McCaffery and Magnuson circle the one. Do you want to take Grandma off the machine? I bet you'd like to know what it means.