You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over with… - Joy Harjo

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You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over
with your lives
and now you are afraid

you can never get out.

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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If I think behind me, I might break.
If I think forward, I lose now.
Forever will be a day like this
Strung perfectly on the necklace of days.

In the beginning when I was writing poetry, a poem had definite limits--I started out knowing definitely what I wanted to begin and end with, or one particular image that I wanted to stay with. Now I feel that my poems have become travels into that other space.

It hasn't always been this way, because glaciers
who are ice ghosts create oceans, carve earth
and shape this city here, by the sound.
They swim backwards in time.

You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over with your lives and now you are afraid you can never get out. - Joy Harjo

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