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41 " It hasn't always been this way, because glacierswho are ice ghosts create oceans, carve earthand shape this city here, by the sound.They swim backwards in time. "
― Joy Harjo , She Had Some Horses
42 " Nothing ever stays the same, whether it be poems or humans. "
43 " Every collection of poetry makes a force field of energy. When creating you give yourself over to it. In the fiercest moments of imagination the artist may not know where they are going, the how and when of it, and it doesn't matter. What matters is the process regenerates and meaning shifts at every turn. "
44 " Was it sleep?Or the star-dancer come for her dance?There are stars who have names, who aredreams. There are stars who have familieswho are music. She thought she woke up. "
45 " Each collection of poetry makes a force field of energy. "
46 " The world doesn't always happen in a linear manner. Nature is much more creative than that, especially when it comes to time and the manipulation of time and space. Europe has gifted us with inventions, books and the intricate mechanics of imposing structures on the earth, but there are other means to knowledge and the structuring of knowledge that have no context in the European mind. "
47 " The pervasive rhythm of her mother’s heartbeat is a ghostly trackthat follows her. "
48 " You savored each story they told you,and rememberedthe way the stars entered your bloodat birth. "
49 " And we go on, keep giving birth and watchourselves die, over and over.And the ground spinning beneath usgoes on talking. "
50 " She sees Lake Michigan lapping at the shores ofherself. It is a dizzy hole of water and the richlive in tall glass houses at the edge of it. "