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This is what I know from science:
that a grain of dust dwells at the center
of every flake of snow,
that ice can have its way with land,
that wolves live inside a circle
of their own beginning.
This is what I know from blood:
the first language is not our own.

— Linda Hogan The Book of Medicines (1993)

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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.

A History of Kindness (2020)

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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