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That was great.

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Thank you, Selene.

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We have our next writer.

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Chris Hoshnic is a Diné poet,
playwright and filmmaker born

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to Kinlichíi'nii,
born for Táchii'nii.

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He leads Diné Kids
Film Club, serves

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as Editor-in-Chief of
Chapter House Journal,

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and his work has appeared
in POETRY, Kenyon Review

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and others.

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Please, let's welcome Chris.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Sorry.

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No joke for me, I guess.

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[LAUGHTER]

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All right.

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Well, this is a pastoral prayer
for the Kayenta Shopping Center.

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The weight, ńdadoodleeł kodi
on the reds, the grease,

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the grands, kǫ ǫ .

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It wakes the peaking cable
ties, knit ties running

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inside the valleys and mesas.

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And I'm sorry the
Wi-Fi popped up.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Turn the turbulent rush.

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The sequencing, of
KKKKK'ooossss, kǫ ǫ .

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Germany, listen,
nestle, a wild waste

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coarse in manila violent blue.

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It wakes, a discropping.

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Men boiled to tin foiled
roofs, abuse hood.

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Kǫ ǫ , a dream work of patience.

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Prayer men.

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Wonder with them.

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This vacant plaza stains.

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Stakes them against the
corners of the store grounds.

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A lonely shadow
lives here, kǫ ǫ .

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A laundromat, an ace
hardware store, a theater,

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a wild subway of sorts.

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They once called this a Coast.

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Kodi, the wishing seas of
grief and burialment and fervor

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come waist deep in quark blue.

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Not a hermit in sight of luce.

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A tailored yoke of amber jynx.

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Kǫ ǫ , the crepe of a wild
Indian washing up against

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the highways nízaadgóó,
they run through.

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Call it pit stop, call Me
pixelated camera phone photo.

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And in this photograph,
your icy fingers

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roar across my ceramic tiles.

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I call those diyogí.

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They bite into the same
Whitman lines you savor.

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Cause an avalanche on
your Rockwell fantasy.

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Would you hang me in your
bedroom above the baby's crib

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and call it diyogí?

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Would you call it me?

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Kodi, this is all I will
remember in the afterlife.

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Kodi, this is how they will
remember me in the afterlife.

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Of course not a bother of warp
waning K'os will guide Me back,

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Kǫ ǫ , where it,
they, us, belong.

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Kodi, near a grand
hope of a weight.

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Now let us pray the weight
away along this Coast.

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Kodi.

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[APPLAUSE]

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