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wild honeysuckle's avatar

I love how your poetry immediately takes me to this world you're building with your words, where I can see everything so vividly

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Samara's avatar

aw thank you, love

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williamphaynes/elliott's avatar

Just astonishing

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Damien Reuel Rucker's avatar

Love this will have to settle in with it and give you some thoughts!

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Samara's avatar

xo please do thank you!

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Damien Reuel Rucker's avatar

You walk us into Canyon de Chelly, letting the horses lead under peach, willow, and cottonwood while canyon walls press close like red, scarred legs. A Navajo man with yellowed eyes offers an atlatl and a glass arrowhead, then drifts toward dust and discount stores beyond the rim. Lean wallets and Nation headlines, a rain-fat sky, a headphone-clamped boy on horseback, and blunt warning billboards slide past before you ask us to kiss the rock and hush our money. Chefs kiss! I'm locked in.

I love how you trust us with these concrete images. The beer-bottle arrowhead and scabby dogs pull me in faster than any tidy summary could. Your final invitation to bless the stone lands softly, like a secret you pass in the dark.

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williamphaynes/elliott's avatar

Beautiful imagery

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Samara's avatar

thank you so much! beautiful land.

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