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This first poem is called "In
My First Hard Springtime."

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And it's a poem of
affirmation and also a poem

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of denial at the same time.

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Those red men you
offended were my brothers.

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Town drinkers, Buckles
Pipe, Star Boy, Billy Fox

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were blood to bison.

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Albert Heavy Runner
was never civic.

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You are white and common.

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Record trout in Willow
Creek chose me to deify.

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My horse, Centaur, part cayuse,
was fast and mad and black.

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Dandy in flat hat and
buckskin, I rode the town

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and called it mine.

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A slow hot wind tumbled
dust against my door.

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Fed and fair, you mocked my
philosophic nose, my badger

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hair.

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I rolled your
deference in the hay

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and named it love and lasting.

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Starved to visions,
famous cronies

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top Mount Chief for
names to give respect

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to Blackfeet streets.

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I could deny them in my
first hard springtime

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but choose amazed, to
ride you down with hunger.

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