In Honor of National Poetry Month, we are celebrating the work of Joy Harjo, a former Poet Laureate of the United States …
When the World As We Knew it Ended
Joy Harjo
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We were dreaming on an occupied island at the farthest edge
of a trembling nation when it went down.
Two towers rose up from the east island of commerce and touched
the sky. Men walked on the moon. Oil was sucked dry
by two brothers. Then it went down. Swallowed
by a fire dragon, by oil and fear.
Eaten whole.
It was coming.
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