Yellow Flower With the Violet Flame

Her sunflower bloomed In sunset sky of twilight. Her aura shone bright, Painted with vibrant shades of Violet and lavender. For K.K.T. (July 2004 to May 2022) --- This tanka poem is about the death of one of my cousins. She died from fentanyl at 17. After her death, we had a shaman visit and do a naming ceremony. He channeled her spirit name as "Yellow Flower," or in my Moose Cree dialect: Osaawa Waapikwaan. He also channeled that her spirit's colors (which I assume is the aura) are dark purple, light purple, yellow, tan brown. Coincidentally these are the colors of fentanyl-death awareness ribbon, suicide awareness ribbon, and also the non-binary gender flag colors. But my cousin did not seem to know about all other gender identities, and seemed to not identify as non-binary if she did know. She liked men's clothes and always wore a beanie hat, so I assume this is a clue she was non-binary gender. In our Cree culture, non-binary gender falls under the umbrella term "two-spirited" gender.