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This last poem from this book
is called "At Mexican Springs."

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Frances read part of it.

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Well, she just-- she mentioned
it in her introduction.

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I wanted to have a poem at
the very end, that could close

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your own on this experience.

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And so, this is called
"At Mexican Springs,"

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which is a little place
on the Navajo reservation.

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"Up here, I can see the
glimmering lights of Gallup

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calling the reservation,
like a whore standing

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under a light post, the
way they do in Juarez.

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In Gallup, when our
sons are born, they say,

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'she gave birth to a wino.'

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Gallup steals our children,
returns them empty

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and crumbled.

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But here, the hills
are quietly breathing.

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The earth is a warm, glowing
blanket holding me in her arms.

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It is here among the sunset
in every plant, every rock,

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every shadow, every
movement, every thing.

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I relive visions
of ancient stories.

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First Woman and First
Man, their children

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stretched across these
eternal sandstones.

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A deep breath, she brings
me sustenance, life,

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and I will live to tell
my children these things."

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