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Many Farms Notes.

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Taking on the Many Farms Arizona
trip a couple of years ago.

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One, hawk circles
on the wind roads

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only he knows how to
follow to the center.

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Two, hawks bright eyes
reads tree, stones,

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points in the horizon movements
how wind and shadows play

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tricks and sudden rabbit
flurry which reminds

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him of his empty stomach.

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Three, a Tuba City girl asks me
if I ever write from paintings.

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I tell her that I write
with visions in my head.

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Four, I'm walking on a gallop.

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He calls, hey, my friend
why are you going to fast?

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Many Farms.

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Good luck, he says.

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I smile for his good thoughts.

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Five, a wind vision.

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If you look into
the Chinle Valley

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you will see the woman's cover
a tapestry her old mother worked

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at for 10 million years or so.

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Six, on the way
south to the junction

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I looked to the
northeast but couldn't

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decide whether that
point in the distance

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beyond the defiance uplift was
Sonsela Butte or Fluted Rock.

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Seven, the LA kid
was a city child

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and a Navajo rodeo
queen who said

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she'd seen me on the road
coming out of Window Rock

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said her friend had said,
I think that was him.

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We just passed him
up and felt so bad.

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He said she was born in LA
but wasn't really a city girl

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and visited her
homeland every summer

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and said her mother
was born in Lukachukai.

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Eight, bear occurs
several times, of course.

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The day before I
went to Many Farms

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I received a card
from Snyder, said

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he had spent a day
watching grizzly bear

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grizzling at the San Diego zoo.

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Navajo girl had a
painting of bear.

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He was facing east
and looking up.

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A line was drawn
through him from chest

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to tail, rainbow muted colors.

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And I said, that
line seems to be

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both the horizon and the ground
line from where you start.

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She told me about
what the people say.

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Don't ever whistle
at night where

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bears are because female bears
do that when they are caught

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and bear's around.

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Remember that, she said, don't
whistle in the dark horny bear

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night.

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That Navajo girl asked me
what I thought about polygamy.

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I told her I thought it was a
good idea but not for keeps,

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and we laughed.

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I wonder how many
wives bear has.

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Nine, for a Monday
night supper we

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had mutton ribs, round steak,
good Isleta bread, tortillas,

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broccoli, green chili, potatoes,
gravy, coffee, and apple pie.

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The mutton was tough
and Francis said,

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you got to be tough
to live on this land.

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10, after I got out of the
back of a red pickup truck,

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I walked for about a mile and
met three goats, two sheep,

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and a lamb by the
side of the road.

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I was wearing a bright red
wool cap pulled over my ears,

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and I suppose they thought I
was maybe weird because they

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were all eyes and ears.

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I said, yaahteh, my friends.

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I'm from Acoma,
just passing through.

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The sheep with the
bell jingled it

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in greeting a couple of times.

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I could almost hear the elder
sheep telling the younger,

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you don't see very many Acoma
poets passing through here.

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11, what would you say that the
main theme of your poetry is?

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She asked.

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To put it as simply
as possible I

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say it's this way, to
recognize the relationships

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I share with everything.

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I would like to
know well the path

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from just east of Black Mountain
to the gray outcropping of Roof

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Butte.

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Without having to worry about
the shortest way possible.

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12, I worried about
two women discussing

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how to get rid of a forming
child without too much trouble

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whether it would be in
the hospital in Gallup

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or in Ganado.

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Please forgive my
worry and my concern.

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13, are you going
to Gallup, shima?

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Yes, $1.50 please.

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