Potential Titles: Joy Harjo
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somethingdarkerA storm of boiling earth - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
Against some unimagined darkness - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
Trespassers in the promised land - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"
A shining piece of invisible memory - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"
Inside the raw cortex of songs - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"
Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"
When the days grew legs of night - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Without winds becoming words - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
To bind a fox's throat with a gold bell - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Pieces of gold confetti - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
The gate of forbidden waters - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
The earth spirits were fed with songs - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
At the door between worlds - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Beautiful beyond dolphin dreaming - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
All memory bends to fit - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
With sun and strands of scarlet time - Joy Harjo "Beyond"
In the song of beyond - Joy Harjo "Beyond"
On the shoulder of the dark universe - Joy Harjo "Bird"
The infinite glitter of chance - Joy Harjo "Bird"
Climb the stairway of forgetfulness - Joy Harjo "Bird"
Black willow shadows for walls - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
The nerve at the center of the bone - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Shadows breathed in cool wind - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Inside a labyrinth of flame - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Inside a ceremony of boulders - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
To walk in shoes of fire - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
To the circling around place of time - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
Echoes like a broken bottle - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
Promises glued together with blood - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
Sunlight on a scarlet canyon wall - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
Their sense of concave horizon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
Velvet deer stalking the moon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
Falling from one sky to another - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
In a tongue of wind off the Atlantic - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
The sweet and bitter gods who walk beside us - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Whisper madness in our invisible ears - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
A common miracle of salt roses - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Of fire in the prophecy wind - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
As our hearts walked home - Joy Harjo "Bourbon and Blues"
Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Even words are creatures of habit - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Wrap you in its thousand arms - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
As if time were mine to give - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
In the precincts of dreams and poetry - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
A wheel in the houses of money - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Opened its mouth to drink grace - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Some of us walk backwards - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
An ocean of fear of the dark - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Name it with other songs - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Or its consequence of light - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Dangle between paradise and fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Torn apart by stones of fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Invented to look like October - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
Too blue for falling angels - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
A sacrifice of deer for the starving - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Forced to join the parade - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Rock with glitter angels - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Tomorrow I will feed the dead - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
On this spiral of tangential stories - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
Dissolved from metal to salt air - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
This room of whirling atoms - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
Crossed through knots of a curse - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
Waltzed with the empty lover - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
Her glass voice of the invisible - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
As nameless as the nightmare - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
Your fire scorched my lips - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
An explosion of sugar wings - Joy Harjo "Desire"
The time it takes a blackbird to understand - Joy Harjo "Desire"
The stars have learned to say good-bye - Joy Harjo "Desire"
A jewel of blue magic in your perfect ear - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Blackbirds in a heaven of blackbirds - Joy Harjo "Desire"
A fox of fire, a bird of stone - Joy Harjo "Desire's Dog"
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
Find our peace here in the white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
Within a true circle of motion - Joy Harjo "Eagle Poem"
Small suns blessed by dew drops - Joy Harjo "Eat"
Will only upset the dead - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Where the dead last stood - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Road through human memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
All of our thirsty dreams - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
The bloodied, the self-righteous, and the forsaken - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
The final verse is always the trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Sing it to the guardian trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Who stay here to care for memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Embracing stars of all colors - Joy Harjo "First Morning"
In one blink of star time - Joy Harjo "First Morning"
The gods weaving against sundown - Joy Harjo "For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak"
The dazzling whirlwind of our anger - Joy Harjo "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live)"
A language that could free you - Joy Harjo "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live)"
Embers burning in their hands - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
Through the miles of relentless exile - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
All the way to sunrise - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
The stagger in your eyes - Joy Harjo "The Friday Before the Long Weekend"
From the broken mask of change - Joy Harjo "Fury of Rain"
Naked to their electric skeletons - Joy Harjo "Fury of Rain"
The haunting voices of the starved - Joy Harjo "Grace"
The year we had nothing to lose - Joy Harjo "Grace"
The cursed country of the fox - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Our thermostat dreams - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Lost a winter in stubborn memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Skated through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Through a season of false midnights - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A promise of balance - Joy Harjo "Grace"
With the hope of children and corn - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A white buffalo escaped from memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Boat of potent fever - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"
Berries made of promises - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"
Or some strange wind whistling hard - Joy Harjo "A Hard Rain"
From a cup of frothy stars - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Tasted the bittersweet roots of this crazy world - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
A crystal wall with a thousand mouths - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
With the secret antelope of compassion - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Complete patterns in her hands - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"
Takes the hand of the moon - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"
Our bones are built of spirals - Joy Harjo "Heartshed"
Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
In the bowels of the concrete monster - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
A phoenix of swallowed myths - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
When the mythic spiral of time turned - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Sleeping in the mind of the snake - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Woodpeckers the size of the sun - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Slippery with dew and laughter - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
This is memory shredded - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Stones bearing libraries of the winds - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Sends his eyes over the horizon - Joy Harjo "'I Wonder What You Are Thinking'"
Ghostly shapes of light years reversed - Joy Harjo "Javelina"
With a song at the torn edge - Joy Harjo "Javelina"
Each star rang with separate colored hue - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Etched on the surface of their bones - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Wrapped in buckskin and silver - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
A thousand mile escape homeward - Joy Harjo "Leaving"
Into the night of a split world - Joy Harjo "Legacy"
In the last days of the fourth world - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
A map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The desires of humans as they emerged from the killing fields - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The map must be of sand and can't be read by ordinary light - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Instructions on the language of the land - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
We forgot to acknowledge the gift - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Supermarkets and malls, the altars of money - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Keep track of the errors of our forgetfulness - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The fog steals our children while we sleep - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Flowers of rage spring up in the depression - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Monsters are born there of nuclear anger - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
A spiral on the road of knowledge - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Lights the map printed with the blood of history - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
A map you will have to know by your intention - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Note the tracks of the monster slayers - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Entered the cities of artificial light and killed - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
When the last human climbs from the destruction - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
You must make your own map - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
The salvation of spring - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
In the arms of another sky - Joy Harjo "Moonlight"
What an anchor his feet provide - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Opens all the doors of our hearts - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Old bones of lava beds - Joy Harjo "Nandia"
In me like a labyrinth of knives - Joy Harjo "Nautilus"
Voices buried in the Mississippi mud - Joy Harjo "New Orleans"
Into the history of living bone - Joy Harjo "Night Out"
In the center of a dream war - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
Through the shimmering houses of the gods - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
Disappear in a paradise of midnight - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
The crack of a perfumed nightmare - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Their wings of fragile promises - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Turns on the heels of sunset - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"
Imagining another spin of the wheel - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"
This slit of impossible time - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"
Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Our dreams drink coffee with us - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Enemies and the ghosts of memories - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
An umbrella in the sun - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Made singers of tricksters - Joy Harjo "Rabbit Invents the Saxophone"
Love at the end of the train line - Joy Harjo "Rainy Night"
Rhetoric made of too much rum - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
The language of damp earth - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Beneath a banana tree at noon - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Through the cloud of rum and laughter - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
At the shore of all knowledge - Joy Harjo "Reconciliation: A Prayer"
Strands broken from the web of life - Joy Harjo "Reconciliation: A Prayer"
The urgent chirper, fledgling flier - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
That one you circle back to - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
The sacred world lifts up its head to notice - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
The timeless room of lost poetry - Joy Harjo "A Refuge in the Smallest of Places"
Know each of the star's stories - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Remember the sky that you were born under - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Remember the moon - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Remember the sun’s birth - Joy Harjo "Remember"
The strongest point of time - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Giving away to night - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Words that sting like bitter limes - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
Believing the trickery of the heart - Joy Harjo "The Returning"
Stumbled down into your own shadow - Joy Harjo "The Returning"
In the fog of thin hope - Joy Harjo "Running"
The truth with its eyes staring back at me - Joy Harjo "Running"
Blows lilacs out of the east - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
The lilacs have taken over - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
Spill out from the spokes of his wheels - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
A piece of time the size of a nickel - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
The fox breaking through the lilacs - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
Thrown open to the need of stars - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Dance the weave of joy and tears - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Lit with the sunrise of forever - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Who were bodies of sand - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Who were clay and would break - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Who waltzed nightly on the moon - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Out of fear of the silence - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Knives to protect themselves from ghosts - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Running towards a cracked sky - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: II. Two Horses"
In an ocean of telephone sound - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: III. Drowning Horses"
An ice horse galloping into fire - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: IV. Ice Horses"
Lizards coming out of rivers of lava - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"
With their hearts of sleeping volcanoes - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"
Sky tethered to the changing earth - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Should I dream you afraid - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Into the cutting edge of the sky - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Pried from the earth with shovels of grief - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
Emerging from the floods and fires - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
Must be friends with silence - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
Echoes all forgotten dreams - Joy Harjo "Skeleton of Winter"
Part of this web of motion - Joy Harjo "Skeleton of Winter"
With no blade edge against ourselves - Joy Harjo "Song for Thantog"
In the fragile weft of ebony night - Joy Harjo "Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On"
Your ceremony of grieving - Joy Harjo "The Story Wheel"
Flowers that have cupped the sun - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Children's invisible voices - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
The sound of a thousand silences - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
The arms of night in the arms of day - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Blooming in the miraculous dark - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
When time threaded earth and sky - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
Grew plant ladders to the the stars - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
When time waved through the corn - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
The raw stalks of beginning - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
Root deeply dark - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
A blackbird laughing in the frozen air - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
Guards a piece of light - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
From the center of miracles - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
Added to an irrational number - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
Mixed faith with your distraction - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
Jumping hoops of water - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
Teach me the fine art of subtraction - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
A snail's moist web of moonlight - Joy Harjo "Untitled"
The rainbow was a crack in the universe - Joy Harjo "Vision"
Caught in a knot of regret - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"
One of those old homemade heartbreak songs - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"
Back into the tempest of dreams - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
A steady tattoo of roses - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
Into the geometry of dreams - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
The design drawn from nightmares - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
A language of lizards and storms - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
Make prayers of clear stone - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
By scarlet waters of belief - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
To answer the winds in song - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
Here at the dawn of forever - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
Sang the sky to eternity - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
The ways the stars entered your blood - Joy Harjo "What Music"
The bones that cracked in your heart - Joy Harjo "What Music"
Paws like a long arctic night - Joy Harjo "White Bear"
Carved of ebony and ice - Joy Harjo "White Bear"
A blur through the dandelions - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
Only the magnetism of ghosts driving us - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
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Against some unimagined darkness - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
Trespassers in the promised land - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"
A shining piece of invisible memory - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"
Inside the raw cortex of songs - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"
Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"
When the days grew legs of night - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Without winds becoming words - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
To bind a fox's throat with a gold bell - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Pieces of gold confetti - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
The gate of forbidden waters - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
The earth spirits were fed with songs - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
At the door between worlds - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Beautiful beyond dolphin dreaming - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
All memory bends to fit - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
With sun and strands of scarlet time - Joy Harjo "Beyond"
In the song of beyond - Joy Harjo "Beyond"
On the shoulder of the dark universe - Joy Harjo "Bird"
The infinite glitter of chance - Joy Harjo "Bird"
Climb the stairway of forgetfulness - Joy Harjo "Bird"
Black willow shadows for walls - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
The nerve at the center of the bone - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Shadows breathed in cool wind - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Inside a labyrinth of flame - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Inside a ceremony of boulders - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
To walk in shoes of fire - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
To the circling around place of time - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
Echoes like a broken bottle - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
Promises glued together with blood - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
Sunlight on a scarlet canyon wall - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
Their sense of concave horizon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
Velvet deer stalking the moon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
Falling from one sky to another - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
In a tongue of wind off the Atlantic - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
The sweet and bitter gods who walk beside us - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Whisper madness in our invisible ears - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
A common miracle of salt roses - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
Of fire in the prophecy wind - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
As our hearts walked home - Joy Harjo "Bourbon and Blues"
Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Even words are creatures of habit - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Wrap you in its thousand arms - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
As if time were mine to give - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
In the precincts of dreams and poetry - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
A wheel in the houses of money - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Opened its mouth to drink grace - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Some of us walk backwards - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
An ocean of fear of the dark - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Name it with other songs - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Or its consequence of light - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Dangle between paradise and fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Torn apart by stones of fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Invented to look like October - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
Too blue for falling angels - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
A sacrifice of deer for the starving - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Forced to join the parade - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Rock with glitter angels - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
Tomorrow I will feed the dead - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
On this spiral of tangential stories - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
Dissolved from metal to salt air - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
This room of whirling atoms - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
Crossed through knots of a curse - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
Waltzed with the empty lover - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
Her glass voice of the invisible - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
As nameless as the nightmare - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
Your fire scorched my lips - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
An explosion of sugar wings - Joy Harjo "Desire"
The time it takes a blackbird to understand - Joy Harjo "Desire"
The stars have learned to say good-bye - Joy Harjo "Desire"
A jewel of blue magic in your perfect ear - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Blackbirds in a heaven of blackbirds - Joy Harjo "Desire"
A fox of fire, a bird of stone - Joy Harjo "Desire's Dog"
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
Find our peace here in the white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
Within a true circle of motion - Joy Harjo "Eagle Poem"
Small suns blessed by dew drops - Joy Harjo "Eat"
Will only upset the dead - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Where the dead last stood - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Road through human memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
All of our thirsty dreams - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
The bloodied, the self-righteous, and the forsaken - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
The final verse is always the trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Sing it to the guardian trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Who stay here to care for memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Embracing stars of all colors - Joy Harjo "First Morning"
In one blink of star time - Joy Harjo "First Morning"
The gods weaving against sundown - Joy Harjo "For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak"
The dazzling whirlwind of our anger - Joy Harjo "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live)"
A language that could free you - Joy Harjo "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live)"
Embers burning in their hands - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
Through the miles of relentless exile - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
All the way to sunrise - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
The stagger in your eyes - Joy Harjo "The Friday Before the Long Weekend"
From the broken mask of change - Joy Harjo "Fury of Rain"
Naked to their electric skeletons - Joy Harjo "Fury of Rain"
The haunting voices of the starved - Joy Harjo "Grace"
The year we had nothing to lose - Joy Harjo "Grace"
The cursed country of the fox - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Our thermostat dreams - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Lost a winter in stubborn memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Skated through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Through a season of false midnights - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A promise of balance - Joy Harjo "Grace"
With the hope of children and corn - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A white buffalo escaped from memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Boat of potent fever - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"
Berries made of promises - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"
Or some strange wind whistling hard - Joy Harjo "A Hard Rain"
From a cup of frothy stars - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Tasted the bittersweet roots of this crazy world - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
A crystal wall with a thousand mouths - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
With the secret antelope of compassion - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Complete patterns in her hands - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"
Takes the hand of the moon - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"
Our bones are built of spirals - Joy Harjo "Heartshed"
Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
In the bowels of the concrete monster - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
A phoenix of swallowed myths - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
When the mythic spiral of time turned - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Sleeping in the mind of the snake - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Woodpeckers the size of the sun - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Slippery with dew and laughter - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
This is memory shredded - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Stones bearing libraries of the winds - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Sends his eyes over the horizon - Joy Harjo "'I Wonder What You Are Thinking'"
Ghostly shapes of light years reversed - Joy Harjo "Javelina"
With a song at the torn edge - Joy Harjo "Javelina"
Each star rang with separate colored hue - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Etched on the surface of their bones - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Wrapped in buckskin and silver - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
A thousand mile escape homeward - Joy Harjo "Leaving"
Into the night of a split world - Joy Harjo "Legacy"
In the last days of the fourth world - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
A map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The desires of humans as they emerged from the killing fields - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The map must be of sand and can't be read by ordinary light - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Instructions on the language of the land - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
We forgot to acknowledge the gift - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Supermarkets and malls, the altars of money - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Keep track of the errors of our forgetfulness - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The fog steals our children while we sleep - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Flowers of rage spring up in the depression - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Monsters are born there of nuclear anger - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
A spiral on the road of knowledge - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Lights the map printed with the blood of history - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
A map you will have to know by your intention - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Note the tracks of the monster slayers - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Entered the cities of artificial light and killed - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
When the last human climbs from the destruction - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
You must make your own map - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
The salvation of spring - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
In the arms of another sky - Joy Harjo "Moonlight"
What an anchor his feet provide - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Opens all the doors of our hearts - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Old bones of lava beds - Joy Harjo "Nandia"
In me like a labyrinth of knives - Joy Harjo "Nautilus"
Voices buried in the Mississippi mud - Joy Harjo "New Orleans"
Into the history of living bone - Joy Harjo "Night Out"
In the center of a dream war - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
Through the shimmering houses of the gods - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
Disappear in a paradise of midnight - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
The crack of a perfumed nightmare - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Their wings of fragile promises - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Turns on the heels of sunset - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"
Imagining another spin of the wheel - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"
This slit of impossible time - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"
Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Our dreams drink coffee with us - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Enemies and the ghosts of memories - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
An umbrella in the sun - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Made singers of tricksters - Joy Harjo "Rabbit Invents the Saxophone"
Love at the end of the train line - Joy Harjo "Rainy Night"
Rhetoric made of too much rum - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
The language of damp earth - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Beneath a banana tree at noon - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Through the cloud of rum and laughter - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
At the shore of all knowledge - Joy Harjo "Reconciliation: A Prayer"
Strands broken from the web of life - Joy Harjo "Reconciliation: A Prayer"
The urgent chirper, fledgling flier - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
That one you circle back to - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
The sacred world lifts up its head to notice - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
The timeless room of lost poetry - Joy Harjo "A Refuge in the Smallest of Places"
Know each of the star's stories - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Remember the sky that you were born under - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Remember the moon - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Remember the sun’s birth - Joy Harjo "Remember"
The strongest point of time - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Giving away to night - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Words that sting like bitter limes - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
Believing the trickery of the heart - Joy Harjo "The Returning"
Stumbled down into your own shadow - Joy Harjo "The Returning"
In the fog of thin hope - Joy Harjo "Running"
The truth with its eyes staring back at me - Joy Harjo "Running"
Blows lilacs out of the east - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
The lilacs have taken over - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
Spill out from the spokes of his wheels - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
A piece of time the size of a nickel - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
The fox breaking through the lilacs - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
Thrown open to the need of stars - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Dance the weave of joy and tears - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Lit with the sunrise of forever - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
Who were bodies of sand - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Who were clay and would break - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Who waltzed nightly on the moon - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Out of fear of the silence - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Knives to protect themselves from ghosts - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Running towards a cracked sky - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: II. Two Horses"
In an ocean of telephone sound - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: III. Drowning Horses"
An ice horse galloping into fire - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: IV. Ice Horses"
Lizards coming out of rivers of lava - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"
With their hearts of sleeping volcanoes - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"
Sky tethered to the changing earth - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Should I dream you afraid - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Into the cutting edge of the sky - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Pried from the earth with shovels of grief - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
Emerging from the floods and fires - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
Must be friends with silence - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
Echoes all forgotten dreams - Joy Harjo "Skeleton of Winter"
Part of this web of motion - Joy Harjo "Skeleton of Winter"
With no blade edge against ourselves - Joy Harjo "Song for Thantog"
In the fragile weft of ebony night - Joy Harjo "Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On"
Your ceremony of grieving - Joy Harjo "The Story Wheel"
Flowers that have cupped the sun - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Children's invisible voices - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
The sound of a thousand silences - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
The arms of night in the arms of day - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Blooming in the miraculous dark - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
When time threaded earth and sky - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
Grew plant ladders to the the stars - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
When time waved through the corn - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
The raw stalks of beginning - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
Root deeply dark - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
A blackbird laughing in the frozen air - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
Guards a piece of light - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
From the center of miracles - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
Added to an irrational number - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
Mixed faith with your distraction - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
Jumping hoops of water - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
Teach me the fine art of subtraction - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"
A snail's moist web of moonlight - Joy Harjo "Untitled"
The rainbow was a crack in the universe - Joy Harjo "Vision"
Caught in a knot of regret - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"
One of those old homemade heartbreak songs - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"
Back into the tempest of dreams - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
A steady tattoo of roses - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
Into the geometry of dreams - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
The design drawn from nightmares - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
A language of lizards and storms - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
Make prayers of clear stone - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
By scarlet waters of belief - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
To answer the winds in song - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
Here at the dawn of forever - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
Sang the sky to eternity - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
The ways the stars entered your blood - Joy Harjo "What Music"
The bones that cracked in your heart - Joy Harjo "What Music"
Paws like a long arctic night - Joy Harjo "White Bear"
Carved of ebony and ice - Joy Harjo "White Bear"
A blur through the dandelions - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
Only the magnetism of ghosts driving us - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
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