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Forming child.

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April 73.

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Several months before my
daughter Rainy was born.

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I wrote this for
the forming child.

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First one.

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Old child's tremble against
your mother's inner wall

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is a true movement without
waste or hesitation.

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A beating of wings
following ancient trails

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to help us return.

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Second one.

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I will point out
your face, your place

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on the Earth among
mountains, on the ground,

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by old water courses, in wind.

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Where your mother walked,
where her mother walked,

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this way then, ah, this way.

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I will show you
those points where

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you will present yourself.

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Third one.

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Two days ago when I was at
the foot of Black Mountain

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there were rain clouds
forming in a space

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between the tip of the mountain
and a point in the sky.

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Two days before that
I saw a hawk circling

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in a slow, cool wind
south of that place

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where I stood watching.

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Fourth one.

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Years ago your
brother and I walked

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from Chee Goodluck's hogan
in the Lukachukai Mountains

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to a place where water flowed
from under huge granite

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boulders.

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The water tasted like the
wind, roots, fresh herbs,

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and sweet smells.

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Fifth one.

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I want you to see a pass
in the Chuska Mountains

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where there are
aspen, oak, elevation

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high enough for fur and snow
enough to last till June.

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I've been up there twice.

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Once on a hard winter day.

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Sixth one.

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Among the things I
would require of you

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is that you should
relish the good wheat

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bread your mother
makes and taking care

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that you should think how her
hands move kneading the dough,

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shaping it with her concern,
and how you were formed

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and grew in her.

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Seventh one.

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Near the summit
southeast of Kinlichee,

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I saw a piece of snow
melt water that I thought

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would look good on a silver
bracelet with maybe two

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small turquoise
stones at its sides.

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But then I liked the way
it was to under pine trees,

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the snow feeding it, the evening
sunlight slanting off it,

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and I knew that you
would understand why I

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decided to leave it like that.

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Eighth one.

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Yesterday as I was lighting
a cigarette, Raho, my son,

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warned me with if anyone starts
a fire Smokey the Bear will

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come put them out.

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Bear's got a lot of friends.

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