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Index
Cover Title Contents Part One: How It Came to Be
“I lay my body down . . .” For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet “For any spark to make a song . . .” Rabbit Is Up to Tricks “Listened to an alto sax player . . .” No “Humans were created by mistake . . .” Once the World Was Perfect “When I woke up from a forty-year sleep . . .” Cricket Song “After years you realize . . .” Entering the Principality of O’ahu by Sky Roads “Each human is a complex, contradictory story . . .” We Were There When Jazz Was Invented “This is only one of many worlds . . .” Reality Show “When I blow my horn . . .” Beautiful Baby, Beautiful Child
Part Two: The Wanderer
Talking with the Sun “ ‘One way to look at it,’ he told me . . .” Spirit Walking in the Tundra “Where we lived, the settlers built their houses . . .” Mother Field “Let’s not shame our eyes . . .” Walk “Midnight is a horn player . . .” Charlie and the Baby “When I walk over to join you in the two-step . . .” Had-It-Up-to-Here Round Dance “ ‘Through these doors walk some of the finest . . .’ ” One Day There Will Be Horses “When I returned to my ancestral grounds . . .” Goin’ Home “Our Mvskoke new year is inherently . . .” The First Day Without a Mother
Part Three: Visions and Monsters
Falling, Falling “Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries . . .” In Mystic “This is the kitchen table university . . .” Listening to Blues in a Fish Joint, Downtown Denver “I would do anything for you, baby . . .” Indian School Night Song Blues “Do not feed the monsters . . .” Suicide Watch “We all have helpers . . .” This Morning I Pray for My Enemies “Ah, but what about being . . .” Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings “The first horn I played . . .” Forever “And then I argued with myself . . .” I Am Not Ready to Die Yet “Whenever a saxophone begins . . .” Report from the Edge of a Terrible Regime “In one house lives the sun . . .” From DFW Airport at Dawn “What kept me going was that perfect song . . .” The Last World of Fire and Trash
Part Four: The World
You Can Change the Story, My Spirit Said to Me as I Sat Near the Sea “Those who could see into the future predicted the storm . . .” Sunrise Healing Song “I knew there was no way . . .” It’s Raining in Honolulu “The day went on as it always had . . .” Praise the Rain “Time is a being, like you, like me . . .” Rushing the Pali “I thought of all the doors . . .” Surfing Canoes “I returned to the city of country swing . . .” Speaking Tree “I heard a raven cry the blues . . .” Everybody Has a Heartache “Everyone comes into the world . . .” For a Girl Becoming “I keep thinking of my boyfriend . . .” Fall Song “My friend Sarita went visiting . . .” For Keeps “I confided in him the longing . . .” Equinox “What are you doing there, soul . . .” Sunrise
Acknowledgments Also by Joy Harjo Copyright
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