Question

Name 3 parts of the longhouse that the speaker mentions in the poem

Answer 1

Referring to In The Longhouse, Oneida MuseumBY ROBERTA HILL

The three parts of the longhouse that mentioned are: 

1. The smoke hole
your mottled air of bark and working sunlight, 
wanted your smokehole with its stars, 

2. The basement Stairs
My eyes burn 
from cat urine under the basement stairs 

3. The Ridgepole
When desolation comes, 
I’ll hide your ridgepole in my spine