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Navarre Scott Momaday
Navarre Scott Momaday
(February 27, 1934 / Lawton, Oklahoma)
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  How shall we adorn
Recognition with our speech?—
Now the dead firstborn
Will lag in the wake of words.

Custom intervenes;
We are civil, something more:
More than language means,
The mute presence mulls and marks.

Almost of a mind,
We take measure of the loss;
I am slow to find
The mere margin of repose.

And one November
It was longer in the watch,
As if forever,
Of the huge ancestral goose.

So much symmetry!—
Like the pale angle of time
And eternity.
The great shape labored and fell.

Quit of hope and hurt,
It held a motionless gaze
Wide of time, alert,
On the dark distant flurry.


Navarre Scott Momaday

Submitted Date Friday, January 03, 2003
Submitted Date Monday, September 19, 2011



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