August: Osage County

When a Cheyenne baby is born, its umbilical cord is left to dry and placed in a bag, which is then sewn. A turtle if she's a girl and a lizard if she's a boy. And we carry it hanging for the rest of our lives. Yes I will lose it, it's like running out of roots. Our soul would no longer belong anywhere, the family cap. In dying-us, I would wander the Earth looking for a place to belong.