i am a continuance of blue sky…

From Joy Harjo:

a woman can’t survive
by her own breath
alone

she must know
the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow
with the elusive
bodies
of night wind women
who will take her into
her own self

look at me
i am not a separate woman
i am a continuance
of blue sky
I am the throat
of the sandia mountains
a flight wind woman
who burns
with every breath
she takes