Horizons and Rains

by

Simon Ortiz

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Interstate 40 from Albuquerque
to Gallup -
witness to the brown people
stumbling Sunday afternoon
northwards -

"Where's the rain that feels so good?"

and to Tsaile, the mountains, dark buttes -

"Maybe if the Hopis and Navajos
quit messing around," Ackley says.

"Where it has always been."

The brown people losing trails
and finding trails and losing them
and finding again -

the horizons
and rains
in the far distance.

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From Woven Stone by Simon Ortiz (originally from Going for the Rain), Vol. 21, in Sun Tracks an American Indian Literary Series, University of Arizona Press.
© 1992 Simon Ortiz

Books by Simon Ortiz

Woven Stone, Simon Ortiz, Univ. Arizona Press. (Hardcover)

Men on the Moon : Collected Short Stories, Simon Ortiz, Univ. Arizona Press. (Hardcover)

After and Before the Lightning , Simon Ortiz, Univ. Arizona Press. (Hardcover)

Speaking for the Generations : Native Writers on Writing, Simon Ortiz (Editor), Univ. Arizona Press.

From Sand Creek : Rising in This Heart Which Is Our America, Simon Ortiz, Univ. Arizona Press.

The People Shall Continue, Simon Ortiz, Children's Book Press. (Library Binding)

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