3 A.M.

in the Albuquerque airport

trying to find a flight

to Old Oraibi, Third Mesa

TWA

is the only desk open

bright lights outline New York

                      Chicago

and the attendant doesn’t know

that Third Mesa

is a part of the center

of the world

and who are we

just two indians

at three in the morning

trying to find a way back

and then I remembered

that time Simon

took a Yellow Cab

out to Acoma from Albuquerque

a twenty-five dollar ride

to the center of himself

3 A.M. is not too late

to find the way back