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"A Tree Grows Near the Road."

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"A tree grows near the road.

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The branches curve
above the tracks

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of trucks and Jeeps
used to run tourists

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in and out of the Canyon.

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Half-day, all-day tours.

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Cameras click.

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Coconut sunscreen with
SPF 30 scents the air.

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Someone shutters
in that tree that

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reaches across the dirt trail.

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It is a woman driven
from her home,

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her husband and
children scorched,

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along with the corn
and the peach orchards,

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the sheep slaughtered.

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Below, the horse soldier paces
back and forth, back and forth.

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She sees horse prints in
the sand, burying hers.

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Brown Diné women sell sodas
and turquoise jewelry near

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the grove of cottonwoods
at Antelope House.

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Tourists must love the
authenticity of real Indians.

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This canyon, elegant,
sexy, ancient,

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and all at once dangerous,
demands the price of memory

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and the stories of jiní.

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So remember this place, where
the tree arches over the road,

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represents the
flow of the water,

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and the woman who got away.

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It is the road that runs
through us like ancestor blood."

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