Poetry
Winter 2010
Winding through the Milky Way (song)
Shining persons appear here Hyvtke lanē Open your being Hyvtke catē In every small thought of what to fix In every immense thought of dancers winding through the Milky Way […]
Poetry
Summer 2006
Letter to Lawson
I have lived 19,404 midnights, some of them in the quaver of fish dreamsAnd some without any memory at all, just the flash of the jumpFrom a night rainbow, to […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
The Dawn Appears with Butterflies
You leave before daybreak to prepare your husband’s body for burial at dawn. It is one of countless dawns since the first crack of consciousness, each buried in molecular memory, […]
Poetry
Summer 1993
The Place the Musician Became a Bear on the Streets of a City Meant to Kill Him
for Jim Pepper I think of the lush stillness of the end of a world, sung into place by singers and the rattle of turtles in the dark morning. When […]
"Oh Abuse": Poets Regarding Pain
Summer 1993
Mourning Song
It’s early evening here in the small world, where gods gamble for good weather as the sky turns red. Oh grief rattling around in the bowl of my skeleton. How […]
Interview
Summer 1993
In Love and War and Music: An Interview with Joy Harjo
MK: What were your beginnings as a writer? JH: I could look at this in a couple of ways. One is to look at the myths and stories of the […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
The Myth of Blackbirds
The hours we counted precious were blackbirds in the density of Washington. Taxis toured the labyrinth with passengers of mist as the myth of ancient love took the shape of […]