Introduction p. 3 Going for the Rain p. 35 Prologue p. 37 The First: The Preparation p. 39 The Creation, According to Coyote p. 41 Forming Child p. 42 Four Poems for a Child Son p. 45 The Expectant Father p. 47 To Insure Survival p. 48 Language p. 49 Four Bird Songs p. 52 Time and Motion and Space p. 54 Buck Nez p. 55 The Poet p. 56 My Father's Song p. 57 Two Women p. 58 Poem for Jody About Leaving p. 60 The Second: Leaving p. 61 Toward Spider Springs p. 63 Arrival in Sudden Seaside Fog This Morning p. 64 Blues Song for the Phoenix Bus Depot Derelict p. 64 Many Farms Notes p. 65 Old Hills p. 69 21 August '71 Indian p. 70 Small Things Today p. 71 Travels in the South p. 72 Relocation p. 76 Busride Conversation p. 77 Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand p. 78 Surprise p. 79 Early Morning p. 79 Making an Acquaintance p. 80 Without You p. 81 The Poems I Have Lost p. 82 How Close p. 83 Last Night p. 84 Today, the A-Train, 168th to 14th p. 85 Hunger in New York City p. 85 Traveled All the Way to New York City p. 87 For Those Sisters and Brothers in Gallup p. 88 Evening Beach Walk p. 89
A Patience Poem for the Child That Is Me p. 90 The Third: Returning p. 91 The Wisconsin Horse p. 93 A Barroom Fragment p. 95 Four Years Ago p. 95 Horizons and Rains p. 96 Leaving America p. 97 Washyuma Motor Hotel p. 97 Passing Through Little Rock p. 98 Sometimes It's Better to Laugh, "Honest Injun" p. 99 Missing That Indian Name of Roy or Ray p. 100 Crossing the Colorado River into Yuma p. 103 Valley of the Sun p. 104 A Dying Warrior p. 106 I Told You I Like Indians p. 107 The Significance of a Veteran's Day p. 108 To and Fro p. 109 Fragment p. 110 Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot p. 110 East of San Diego p. 111 Crow p. 112 Returned from California p. 112 Pain p. 113 Wind and Glacier Voices p. 114 Albuquerque Back Again: 12/6/74 p. 115 East of Tucumcari p. 116 Watching You p. 116 Bend in the River p. 117 The Fourth: The Rain Falls p. 119 Earth Woman p. 121 Spreading Wings on Wind p. 121 For Nanao p. 123 The Boy and Coyote p. 124 My Children, and a Prayer for Us p. 125 Four Deetseyamah Poems p. 126 My Mother and My Sisters p. 129 What Joy Said on Two Occasions p. 131 Juanita, Wife of Manuelito p. 132 A Pretty Woman p. 133 Bony p. 134 Two Acoma Pictures p. 134
For Rainy's Book p. 135 A Deer Dinner p. 136 A Snowy Mountain Song p. 136 Yuusthiwa p. 137 Hawk p. 138 Buzzard p. 138 Dry Root in a Wash p. 140 Curly Mustache, 101-Year-Old Navajo Man p. 140 Four Rains p. 142 Morning Star p. 144 A Story of How a Wall Stands p. 145 For Joy to Leave Upon p. 146 It Doesn't End, Of Course p. 147 A Good Journey p. 149 Preface p. 151 Telling p. 155 Telling About Coyote p. 157 They Come Around, The Wolves - And Coyote and Crow, Too p. 160 Hesperus Camp, July 13, Indian 1971 p. 162 Brothers and Friends p. 164 A San Diego Poem: January-February 1973 p. 165 The Journey Begins p. 165 Shuddering p. 165 Under L.A. International Airport p. 167 Survival This Way p. 167 Like myself, the source of these narratives is my home p. 168 And another one p. 172 How to make a good chili stew p. 174 And there is always one more story p. 177 Notes For My Child p. 183 Grand Canyon Christmas Eve 1969 p. 185 My Children p. 189 Speaking p. 190 This Magical Thing p. 190 Notes for My Child p. 191 Earth and Rain, The Plants and Sun p. 196 Pout p. 198 Burning River p. 198 A Morning Prayer and Advice for a Rainbowdaughter p. 200 Canyon de Chelly p. 201 Baby Bird Prayers for My Children, Raho and Rainy p. 203
Between Albuquerque and Santa Fe p. 205 Fingers Talking in the Wind p. 205 Like Mississippi p. 206 A New Mexico Place Name p. 207 Back into the Womb, The Center p. 209 A Birthday Kid Poem p. 212 How Much He Remembered p. 215 Woman, This Indian Woman p. 217 Watching Salmon Jump p. 219 Some Indians at a Party p. 219 Places We Have Been p. 220 Vada's in Cuba, New Mexico p. 220 Northern Maine p. 221 Indianhead Bay p. 222 Ithaca, New York p. 223 Upstate p. 223 How Much Coyote Remembered p. 224 Morning by a Lakeside in Marion County, S.C. p. 225 Woman Dreamer: Slender Oak Woman p. 226 Apache Love p. 227 Her Story About Saving Herself p. 229 Two Coyote Ones p. 230 Will Come Forth in Tongues and Fury p. 233 A Designated National Park p. 235 Long House Valley Poem p. 237 Blessings p. 238 Irish Poets on Saturday and an Indian p. 240 Ten O'clock News in the American Midwest p. 240 Grants to Gallup, New Mexico p. 241 The following words... p. 243 "And The Land Is Just As Dry" p. 244 Vision Shadows p. 245 Heyaashi Guutah p. 246 Time to Kill in Gallup p. 247 For Our Brothers: Blue Jay, Gold Finch, Flicker, Squirrel p. 251 "The State's claim..." p. 254 Railroads p. 255 Electric Lines p. 256 Gas Lines p. 256 Highways p. 257 Phone Company p. 258
Cable TV p. 258 Right of Way p. 259 I Tell You Now p. 261 Waking p. 263 My Father Singing p. 264 This Occurs to Me p. 265 Uncle Jose p. 266 That Time p. 267 When It Was Taking Place p. 267 Poems from the Veterans Hospital p. 270 8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH p. 270 Two Old Men p. 271 Damn Hard p. 273 Cherry Pie p. 274 Teeth p. 275 Traveling p. 276 Superchief p. 276 Along the Arkansas River p. 277 Looking, Looking p. 278 For a Taos Man Heading South p. 279 I Tell You Now p. 281 Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land p. 285 Mid-America Prayer p. 289 Too Many Sacrifices p. 291 It Was That Indian p. 295 Indians Sure Came in Handy p. 296 Starting at the Bottom p. 297 Ray's Story p. 299 Affirmative Action p. 303 Crazy Gook Indians p. 304 Out to Tsaile Lake p. 304 The First Hard Core p. 306 To Change in a Good Way p. 308 Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving p. 318 Stuff: Chickens and Bombs p. 320 That's the Place Indians Talk About p. 321 We Have Been Told Many Things but We Know This to Be True p. 324 What I Mean p. 326 Mama's and Daddy's Words p. 329 Returning It Back, You Will Go On p. 330 This Song: Beating The Heartbeat p. 332
It Will Come; It Will Come p. 334 No More Sacrifices p. 335 Our Homeland, A National Sacrifice Area p. 337 A New Story p. 363 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.