The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in histo… - Joy Harjo

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The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.

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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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something echoes
all forgotten dreams

The Poem I Just Wrote

The poem I just wrote is not real.
And neither is the black horse
who is grazing on my belly.
And neither are the ghosts
of old lovers who smile at me
from the jukebox.

Really, all poetry is a prayer, you have to go to the center place, inside you, to write poetry. (1994

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