She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo

Author:Joy Harjo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Moonlight

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.”

Jemez

Sometimes it is like

facing the dreamer

who knows the you

of blood and stars—

and you talk out

the winter,

horses neighing

at the razor sky.

And the dreamer leaves.

Maybe you never see

the dreamer again—

but coming toward you

are Jemez Mountains

opened red

like the sun going down

against

soft earth.

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