fire

a woman can't survive
by her breath alone
she must know
the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow
with the elusive
bodies
of night wind women
who will take her into
her own self...

...look at me
i am not a seperate woman
i am a continuance
of blue sky
i am the throat
of the sandia mountains
a night wind woman
who burns
with every breath
she takes

~Joy Harjo from What Drove Me to This? (1978)







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