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" 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'. "

Joy Harjo , She Had Some Horses


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Joy Harjo quote : <b>Moonlight</b><br /><br />I know when the sun is in China<br />because the night shining other-light<br />crawls into my bed. She is moon.<br />Her eyes slit and yellow she is the last<br />one out of a dingy bar in Albuquerque—<br />Fourth Street, or from similar avenues<br />in Hong Kong. Where someone else has also<br />awakened, the night thrown back and asked,<br />'where is the moon, my lover'?<br />And from here I always answer in my dreaming,<br />'the last time I saw her was in the arms<br />of another sky'.