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The last poem is called
"Seven Charms for a New Day."

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It's in seven sections, all very
short, some no more than three

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or four lines.

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And it also has an epigraph, in
this case, from a Navajo poem.

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"Seven Charms for a New Day."

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"It was the wind
that gave them life.

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It is the wind that comes
out of our mouths now

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that gives us life.

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When this ceases
to blow, we die.

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In the skin at the
tips of our fingers

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we see the trail of the wind.

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It shows us where
the wind blew when

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our ancestors were created.

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Everywhere I discover
the signs of ancestors.

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Footprints lightly, lightly
bending this way in new grass.

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Blue air opens around
me, wind brushes my eyes,

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and wind again enters the
circles of my fingers.

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Inside the seed of the
wind, children are born.

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Such a small place, but a
heart can be lost in it.

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A tree rises from a familiar
path, a white tree blossoming

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in a thorny road.

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What was lost has
been here and remains,

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kept close in the
rising of the light,

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in this sudden light
rising from the belly

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of a long and difficult night.

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Sweeping water stirs in
the hollow of a rock.

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My face enters it, my
hands tremble in it.

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Everything hides within itself.

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Water inside water,
flower inside flower,

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the bright seed inside the seed.

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I invent new signs
in the fresh earth.

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The voices of birds
will comfort me.

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The roots of unnamed
plants will cure me.

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An amulet of stone will
protect me if I believe in it.

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And if I find you at the end of
the long falling of the wind,

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I will bend down
to touch your face.

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I will add my breath
like this to yours."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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