WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.340 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.340 --> 00:00:08.380 align:middle line:84% This first poem is called "In My First Hard Springtime." 00:00:08.380 --> 00:00:11.280 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:15.180 align:middle line:84% And it's a poem of affirmation and also a poem 00:00:15.180 --> 00:00:16.815 align:middle line:90% of denial at the same time. 00:00:16.815 --> 00:00:19.950 align:middle line:90% 00:00:19.950 --> 00:00:23.010 align:middle line:84% Those red men you offended were my brothers. 00:00:23.010 --> 00:00:28.590 align:middle line:84% Town drinkers, Buckles Pipe, Star Boy, Billy Fox 00:00:28.590 --> 00:00:30.660 align:middle line:90% were blood to bison. 00:00:30.660 --> 00:00:33.600 align:middle line:84% Albert Heavy Runner was never civic. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.510 align:middle line:90% You are white and common. 00:00:36.510 --> 00:00:40.830 align:middle line:84% Record trout in Willow Creek chose me to deify. 00:00:40.830 --> 00:00:47.610 align:middle line:84% My horse, Centaur, part cayuse, was fast and mad and black. 00:00:47.610 --> 00:00:52.170 align:middle line:84% Dandy in flat hat and buckskin, I rode the town 00:00:52.170 --> 00:00:54.930 align:middle line:90% and called it mine. 00:00:54.930 --> 00:00:59.670 align:middle line:84% A slow hot wind tumbled dust against my door. 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:05.250 align:middle line:84% Fed and fair, you mocked my philosophic nose, my badger 00:01:05.250 --> 00:01:06.540 align:middle line:90% hair. 00:01:06.540 --> 00:01:09.180 align:middle line:84% I rolled your deference in the hay 00:01:09.180 --> 00:01:13.140 align:middle line:90% and named it love and lasting. 00:01:13.140 --> 00:01:16.410 align:middle line:84% Starved to visions, famous cronies 00:01:16.410 --> 00:01:19.920 align:middle line:84% top Mount Chief for names to give respect 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.170 align:middle line:90% to Blackfeet streets. 00:01:22.170 --> 00:01:26.610 align:middle line:84% I could deny them in my first hard springtime 00:01:26.610 --> 00:01:32.360 align:middle line:84% but choose amazed, to ride you down with hunger. 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:36.079 align:middle line:90%