I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying o… - Joy Harjo

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I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.

Joy Harjo

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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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All for that welcome home dance,
The most favorite of all — when everyone finds their way back together
to dance, eat and celebrate.
And tell story after story
of how they fought and played
in the story wheel
and how no one
was ever really lost at all.

I have no more land. I am driven away from home, driven up the red waters, let us all go, let us all die together and somewhere upon the banks we will be there.

We tried to pretend war wasn't going to happen.

Though they began building their houses all around us

and demanding more.

They started teaching our children their god's story,

A story in which we'd always be slaves.

I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk. - Joy Harjo

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