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This next poem I'm
going to read is

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for all the people from up
around Chinle, Lukachukai,

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Ganado, Greasewood,
all that good country

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up there where I
spent so much time.

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It's good country.

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I was teaching at
Navajo Community College

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while I was living up there.

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And I used to live
down in Chinle,

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and I used to commute every day.

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I used to drive about,
what, 16 miles one way.

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Up every day and
just driving along,

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I used to see some things.

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And these two poems here, well,
that's where they came from.

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This one's called,
"Horses at Valley Store."

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"Every day I meet the horses.

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With dust and heat they
come, step by step,

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pulling the day behind them.

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At Valley Store, there is
water, gray steel tank,

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narrow concrete trough.

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Eyes that smell water,
in a line, one by one,

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moving with the
weight of the sun,

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moving through the
deep earth heat

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they come, people with water
barrels and pickups and wagons.

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So they pause.

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And from their distance,
outside of time, they wait."

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