Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems, 1964-1994 Book

	Malinalli, La Malinche, to Cortes, Conquistador	3
	For Carol	5
	Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe	6
	Medicine Song	8
	Something Fragile, Broken	11
	What It Means	13
	The Garden	14
	On the Street: Monument	17
	Wool Season: 1973	18
	A Chloroformed Poem to Your Closed Eyes	19
	Curiosity at UD	21
	Missing	22
	High Steppin' Seboyetano	25
	Heyoka, Coyote Tale	27
	Never Cry Uncle	28
	Laguna Ladies Luncheon	30
	Grandma's Dying Poem	31
	For What Remains Behind	35
	Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins	36
	Indian Blood	37
	Weed	40
	Dear World	41
	A Piece of Grief, Just a Piece	42
	Life is a Fatal Disease	43
	Myth/Telling - Dream/Showing	47
	Runes	49
	Grandmother	69
	Molly Brant, Iroquois Matron, Speaks	70
	Elegy for My Son	75
	Iroquois Sunday: Watertown, 1982	76
	Suiciding(ed) Indian Women	77
	Teaching Poetry at Votech High, Santa Fe, The Week John Lennon Was Shot	80
	Affirmation	88
	Powwow 79, Durango	90
	Tucson: First Night	91
	Surfacing in Private Space	94
	For Friday	95
	Riding the Thunder	98
	Song at Midnight from the Spirit Who Rides the Stars Like Horses	100
	? Quien es que anda?	102
	What is Beyond Me	104
	Morning Coffee at Peet's	108
	Resurrection	109
	Dialog	112
	Poem for Pat	113
	Kopis'taya, a Gathering of Spirits	114
	Perhaps Somebody Dreams	116
	The One Who Skins Cats	123
	Creation Story	128
	Essentially, It's Spring	129
	American Apocalypse	130
	Hanging Out in America	131
	The Lilies of the Field are as Children Growing	133
	La Dieh	134
	July 23, 1973	135
	Another Long Walk	136
	The Warrior	138
	? Que Cante, Quetzal?	139
	The Film Library	141
	Locus	142
	Lament of My Father, Lakota	143
	The Text is Flesh	144
	Hoop Dancer	146
	Some Like Indians Endure	147
	Los Angeles, 1980	151
	Taku Skanskan	153
	Litany	155
	Moonshot: 1969	161
	The Last Fantasy: San Francisco	163
	Coyote's Daylight Trip	165
	Six Six Six	166
	Approaches	168
	Fantasia Revolution	170
	Anagram	173
	The Orange on Your Head is on Fire	174
	A Satisfaction	176
	The Awakening	177
	The Amorclast	178
	You, Like the Taste of Ozone	179
	The Dying	180
	The Trick is Consciousness	181
	Se Por Dios	183
	String Beans Being	189
	The Sing	192
	The Blessing	193
	Another Shore	194
	Trinity: 50 Years Gone Return	196