Table of Contents
Foreword Sandra Cisneros xi
The Last Song 1
Are You Still There? 2
Anchorage 3
For Alva Benson, and for Those Who Have Learned to Speak 5
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth-Floor Window 7
Remember 10
New Orleans 11
She Had Some Horses 14
I Give You Back 17
My House Is the Red Earth 19
Grace 20
Deer Dancer 21
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars 24
Bird 26
Rainy Dawn 28
Santa Fe 29
Eagle Poem 30
The Creation Story 31
A Postcolonial Tale 33
The Dawn Appears with Butterflies 35
Perhaps the World Ends Here 38
A Map to the Next World 40
Emergence 43
The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles 45
Equinox 47
It's Raining in Honolulu 48
When the World as We Knew It Ended 49
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet 51
Rahbit Is Up to Tricks 54
No 56
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies 58
Praise the Rain 59
Speaking Tree 60
Fall Song 62
Sunrise 63
Break My Heart 64
Washing My Mother's Body 66
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War 71
Running 75
My Man's Feet 77
Tobacco Origin Story 79
Redbird Love 81
An American Sunrise 83
Frog in a Dry River 84
Prepare 86
The Life of Beauty 88
How Love Blows Through the Trees 90
Sundown Walks to the Edge of the Story 92
Somewhere 94
Without 97
Notes 99
Acknowledgments 125
