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The other pieces that I chose
from this new collection

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is going to sort of focus on
the land that we know here

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and for many of us, the land
that we love and appreciate

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in the Tucson basin area
and the surrounding area.

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And this piece is, just
call it "Proclamation."

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It just has a one note to
it, one place name that

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if you've lived
for any time here,

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you know that the
community of San Xavier,

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it's real name is Wa:k.

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So there's a reference to Wa:k.

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And the piece is
called "Proclamation."

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And perhaps you will maybe
recognize yourself in here

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or recognize your
friends in your.

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"Proclamation"--
"Cuk Son is a story.

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Tucson is a linguistic
alternative.

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This story is in the many
languages still heard

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in this place of
Black Mountains.

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They are in the echo of lost
forgotten languages heard here

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even before the people arrived.

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The true story of
this place recalls

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people walking deserts
all their lives

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and continuing today,
if only in their dreams.

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The true story is ringing
in their footsteps,

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in a place so quiet they
can hear their blood

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and moving through their veins.

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Their stories give
shape to the mountains

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encircling this place.

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Wa:k is the story of water
memories of this desert.

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Citizens gravitate to Sabino
Canyon, the humming, buzzing,

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clicking, of water life,
the miracle of desert

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streams on smooth boulders.

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Rocks, sediment, older than
life itself serve as reminders.

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It should be a necessary
for little sticky notes

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to remind us what a desert place
is, a place dependent on rains

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of summer, light dusting of
snow, the rarity of dry beds

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as rebel rivers.

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It is real desert people
who lift their faces upward

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with the first
signs of moisture.

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They know how to
Inhale properly,

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recognizing the aroma of
creosote in the distance.

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Relieved the cycle
is beginning again,

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these people are
to be commended.

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It is others who lament
the heat of a June day,

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simultaneously finding pride on
surviving the heat, a dry heat.

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These individuals should
simply be tolerated.

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Opposed to those who
move from one air

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conditioned
environment to another,

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never acknowledging
the heat of summer,

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being grateful for November when
the temperatures drop below 80,

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complaining of the lack
of seasons in the desert,

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heading for mountains
to see colors.

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These people, well,
what can we say?

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And we must feel for
the dogs of Tucson,

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who bark as if they
belong to somebody

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and who before the
rains, wish they

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were a color other than black."

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So I tried.

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To include everyone in there.