But your half-grin is the only image that comes clear. All … - Joy Harjo

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But your half-grin
is the only image that comes clear.
All the words lead to that

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she-had-some-horses poetry

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

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There were no Native names in the American book of poetry when I began writing poetry, though there are many.

Her own daughter
was born, like she had been, in either place
or all places, so she could leave, leap
into the sound she had always heard,
a voice like water, like the gods weaving
against sundown in a scarlet light.

America has always been multicultural, before the term became ubiquitous, before colonization, and it will be after.

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