For the true warriors of the world, fighting is the last resort to solving a conflict. Every effort is made to avoid bloodshed - Joy Harjo

Be who you are, even if it kills you.
It will. Over and over again.
Even as you live.

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.

To imagine the spirit of poetry is much like imagining the shape and size of the knowing. It is a kind of resurrection light; it is the tall ancestor spirit who has been with me since the beginning, or a bear or a hummingbird. It is a hundred horses running the land in a soft mist, or it is a woman undressing for her beloved in firelight. It is none of these things. It is more than everything.