Foliage on Canyon floor

Foliage on Canyon Floor

byJoy Harjo


It's true the landscape forms the mind. If stand here long enough I'll learn how to sing. None of that country & western heartbreak stuff, or operatic duels, but something cool as the blues, or close to the sound of a Navajo woman singing early in the morning.
© 1989 Joy Harjo & Stephen E. Strom. Secrets from the Center of the World, University of Arizona Press.

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