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“ ”Every poem is a prayer, a supplication in the cacophony of humanity.
About Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (May 9, 1951) is a poet, musician, author and the first Native American United States Poet Laureate.
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Additional quotes by Joy Harjo
<b>Moonlight</b>
I know when the sun is in China
because the night shining other-light
crawls into my bed. She is moon.
Her eyes slit and yellow she is the last
one out of a dingy bar in Albuquerque — Fourth Street, or from similar avenues
in Hong Kong. Where someone else has also
awakened, the night thrown back and asked,
'where is the moon, my lover'?
And from here I always answer in my dreaming,
'the last time I saw her was in the arms
of another sky'.
In a world long before this one, there was enough for everyone,
Until somebody got out of line.
"I remember when there was no urge
to cut the land or each other into pieces,
when we knew how to think
in beautiful.
(Lines from Harjo's poem "Emergence".)"