43 Quotes About Joy-harjo

Her own daughterwas born, like she had been, in either placeor all places, so she could leave, leapinto the sound she had always heard,a voice like water, like the gods weavingagainst sundown in a scarlet light.

Under our ribsour hearts are bloody stars. Shine onshine on, and horses in their galloping flightstrike the curve of ribs.

You have paid the cover charge thousands of times overwith your livesand now you are afraidyou can never get out.

And we go on, keep giving birth and watchourselves die, over and over.And the ground spinning beneath usgoes on talking.

her eyes closed against someunimagined darkness, where she is buried in an achein which nothing makessense.

My heart is taken by youand these mornings since I am a horse running towardsa cracked sky where there are countless dawnsbreaking simultaneously.There are two moons on the horizonand for youI have broken loose.

I thought my dance alone through worlds ofodd and eccentric planets that no one else knewwould sustain me.

But you must have grown out ofa thousand years dreamingjust like I could never imagine you.You must have broke open from another skyto here, becausenow I see you as a part of the millions ofother universes that I thought could never occurin this breathing.And I know you as myself, traveling.In your eyes alone are many colonies of starsand other circling planet motion.

UntitledEither a snail's moist webof moonlight, or someone'shot breath at four a.m.when the night has beentoo much, has eatenyou whole.This is my life.It has beensifted through the bonesof my body, throughblood.It is all thatI have.