Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley you may call me the

you may call me the F-word

a potent instrument wielded to dismantle the oppressive structures that seek to stifle and erase

in a world still beset by the misery of war

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Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield David Wheatley you may call me theThe poems in this collection were written over a 10 year period, beginning with 'Springtime in the Rockies'. This poem was sparked by an incident in September 2014 where a bowhunter shot and killed a bull moose in an area where the animals had become habituated to people. The title of the collection is based on the 19th century ideology, 'Manifest Destiny', the belief that God gave white Americans the right to expand westward across the North American