When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through Quotes

“Home is elusive.
It shapeshifts with the currents
of my heart and its will.
Home is a trickster changing
according to the medicine
of the season and its lesson."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

“Maybe it is the thunders
who breathed life into my body.
They are forever wanting
to lift me high and carry me away."
-Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)”
― Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry