What we haven't imagined will one day spit us out magnificent and simple. -Fury of Rain - Joy Harjo

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"I remember when there was no urge
to cut the land or each other into pieces,
when we knew how to think
in beautiful.
(Lines from Harjo's poem "Emergence".)"

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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 · January 17, 2004 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful —

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An American Sunrise · August 13, 2019 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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.

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She Had Some Horses · November 30, 2005 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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