What do you think of me, Dad, writing this in Cree? Could there have been more room for a Cree conversation, for a Cree understanding, for a daughter"s understanding her father"s honour in the space between, tawâyihk, your childhood and your passing. Is it enough that I"ve cleared a space on my desk to light this candle for you? Would that I could have made more room. nipakosêyimon kahk"-tawinamâtân. Through bilingual poetry, the poet explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâs"mowin. A treatise to honour her father"s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her mother"s beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyâm articulates a powerful yearning for family, history, peace, and love. Naomi McIlwraith is an educator, poet, and essayist, with a mixed Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English inheritance. She currently works at Grant MacEwan University and has held instructional positions at the University of Alberta and The King"s University College.