Josh Simmons quoted An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east …
First Morning by Joy Harjo for Shan Goshorn, December 3, 2018
This is the first morning we are without you on earth. The sun greeted us after a week of rain In your eastern green and mountain homelands. Plants are fed, the river restored, and you have been woven Into a path of embracing stars of all colors Now free of the suffering that shapes us here. We all learn to let go, like learning how to walk When we first arrive here. All those you thought you lost now circle you And you are free of pain and heartbreak. Don't look back, keep going. We will carry your memory here, until we join you In just a little while, in one blink of star time.
— An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo (Page 52)
