I never got to wash my mother's body when she died. I return to take care of her in memory. That's how I make peace when things are left undone. - Joy Harjo

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I never got to wash my mother's body when she died.
I return to take care of her in memory.
That's how I make peace when things are left undone.

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About Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo (May 9, 1951) is a poet, musician, author and the first Native American United States Poet Laureate.

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...it is what we are made of, the stories that we carry with us. Stories create us. We create ourselves with stories. Stories that our parents tell us, that our grandparents tell us, or that our great-grandparents told us, stories that reverberate through the web. (1994)
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