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And I thought I'd end by
reading the opening and closing

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poems that are just a few lines
long that are in Muskogee.

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I say "um" a lot
tonight, I realize.

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I apologize.

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I'm studying Muskogee,
and here we go.

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One way that I'm learning
is by writing poems

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in Muskogee, which is really
wonderful because then I

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read them to my teachers
and some other speakers.

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And then we really struggle
with like metaphorical language

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and how to make
that and the sounds.

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And I just love it.

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I love the struggles
and the beauty

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of that space between the
poems and the languages.

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So this first one
basically says,

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I follow the story, the sun
rising over the ocean's edge,

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I arrive at--

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I arrive at the sunrise
at the edge of the ocean.

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I turn back, and behind
me, I see myself.

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I see my image and
my face disappears.

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Nakonakv vcakayis.

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Hvse ah ossan uehvtke
rakko tempen vlakis.

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Vcekelliyat, yopvn ē oh
hecis: nake vcvhakat,

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cvtorofv vnsekos.

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