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295 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
They act the fish, then fly and are the birds, tail in the air and fingers hunched under arms they go monkey, dancing and loud, acting the medicine people who leap the healing circle and wait for what we run from troubled. They act the sun. Head, arms, hearts rich with recitation and the word. They send a child to fetch Velma from her swoon and fetch a strong rope to bind the wind, to circle the world while they swell the sea with their song. She is the child they sent. She is the song.