The Light the Living See
6 Overpass
7 The Millionth Dream of Your Return
10 Wonder Woman
12 The Year of the Goldfinches
14 Sundown & All the Damage Done
18 Full Gallop
21 Cargo
22 The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual
23 It’s Harder
2 Instructions on Not Giving Up
4 Maybe I’ll Be Another Kind of Mother
5 Carrying
9 Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance
10 Sway
12 Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air
14 Wife
15 From the Ash inside the Bone
18 Losing
She had some horses she loved.
She had some horses she hated.
These were the same horses.
JOY HARJO
1
A NAME
When Eve walked among
the animals and named them—
nightingale, red-shouldered hawk,
fiddler crab, fallow
