When Sun leaves at dusk, it makes a doorway. We have access… - Joy Harjo

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When Sun leaves at dusk, it makes a doorway. We have access to ancestors, to eternity. Breathe out. Ask for forgiveness. Let all hurts and failures go. Let them go. (p171)

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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Love cries, or blood.

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I was born with eyes that can never close...

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