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The people her own age had not ever recovered from the war. The older people are still in the pain of history. (p64)

— Linda Hogan People of the Whale (2008)

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Blessed are they who listen
when no one is left to speak.

They think these are only stories
not what holds the world together
in its balance.

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This land is the house we have always lived in

Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)

It really is true that the history of your people and your land is in the human body.

Some men sleep
with loose hands that by day are fists
holding fear

Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)

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