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Sep. 21st, 2024 12:56 am
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Promise of Blue Horses // A blue horse turns into a streak of lightning, / then the sun— / relating the difference between sadness / and the need to praise / that which makes us joyful. I can’t calculate / how the earth tips hungrily / toward the sun—then soaks up rain—or the density / of this unbearable need / to be next to you. It’s a palpable thing—this earth philosophy / and familiar in the dark / like your skin under my hand. We are a small earth. It’s no / simple thing. Eventually / we will be dust together, can be used to make a house, to stop / a flood or grow food / for those who will never remember who we were, or know / that we loved fiercely. / Laughter and sadness eventually become the same song turning us / toward the nearest star— / a star constructed of eternity and elements of dust barely visible / in the twilight as you travel / east. I run with the blue horses of electricity who surround / the heart / and imagine a promise made when no promise was possible. 
Joy Harjo, “Promise of Blue Horses” from the collection How We Became Human
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