<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Fall Song</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">It is a dark fall day.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">The earth is slightly damp with rain.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">I hear a jay.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">The cry is blue.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">I have found you in the story again.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Is there another word for ‘‘divine’’?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">I need a song that will keep sky open in my mind.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">If I think behind me, I might break.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">If I think forward, I lose now.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Forever will be a day like this</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Strung perfectly on the necklace of days.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Slightly overcast</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Yellow leaves</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Your jacket hanging in the hallway</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class="">Next to mine.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Joy Harjo</div></body></html>