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Georgia's avatar

Thank you for returning to our lives, Sherman Alexie. We are so glad to be finding such poems in our morning ritual. This one reminds me again how poetry, this kind of poetry, can bless us with the beautiful part of being human, the healing, the sharing, the reaffirmation of joy. A kind of christening.

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Oh, Sherman! I forwarded your poem to a friend this morning, and got this is return:

"THANK YOU! I will return to New Mexico this fall even though I am not

as beautiful as water,

as enchanting as song,

as embracing as moon,

and as life-giving as sun."

I wrote back to tell her that, yes, she is. She wrote back to me:

"Did you ever read Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian? Among other virtue, it has a laugh out loud scene about teenage boy masturbation.

PS# 2 the photograph looks like one of my local beaches"

She's in Mendocino.

I love your poem, and I love how it has connected me and my friend on yet another mutual passion--the rock-star Sherman Alexie.

May I say,

love,

Nancy

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