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</div> <div> Hair streaming past defiant shoulders</div> <div> before the white boys made long hair</div> <div> a fashion statement!  My mother </div> <div> warned me, so I never learned the deeps</div> <div> of your flesh, scent, touch except rough </div> <div> bark, sap, sun-heated needles tattooing </div> <div> your thefts into my virgin skin. </div> <div> Car Stealer, one day you stopped</div> <div> speeding down our narrow street.</div> <div> My mother claimed they locked you</div> <div> in a place for juvenile delinquents.</div> <div> I stole out to the road, believing</div> <div> she lied, waiting to hear “Sexy Susie” </div> <div> sparkling like chrome off your tongue, </div> <div> ready to hitch a ride in a red convertible, </div> <div> top down, our entangled hair </div> <div> tearless trails in the wind.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Car Stealer</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > is a 40 page hand-stitched chapbook - $10.00</FONT></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >                             </FONT></div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Car Stealer"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--05"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Car Stealer"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--05"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Car Stealer"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--05"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <div> **********************************************************</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> The Last Ceremony</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1322ce30.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="483" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Georgia O'Keefe once wrote about her yearning to "kick a hole in the universe." Susan Deer Cloud does just that with these poems that make a stand in a way similar to that of her Native ancestors. Her words soar, her music and vision carry you into new universes that favor freedom, exuberance and beauty beyond all heartbreak. For that reason this Indian woman's poetry will be lasting.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Ruth Stone</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="134c9960.jpg" border=0 width="201" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> THE ONLY CEREMONY WE HAD LEFT TO US</div> <div> (for Lance Henson, Ron Welburn </div> <div>              & Sara Littlecrow-Russell)</div> <bR> <div> I am not going to pretend.  The only ceremony </div> <div> we had left to us was taking rides in a dented </div> <div> Chevy on dirt roads no city slickers could find.  </div> <div> The only ceremony left to us was stopping </div> <div> at a path we mountain Indians knew about, </div> <div> stepping behind one another, hands brushing </div> <div> the bent ferns.  The ceremony never stolen </div> <div> was walking a stony trail to a cliff, where</div> <div> we made our stand with oaks, spruces, maples,</div> <div> a few surviving hemlocks.  I am not going to lie.</div> <div> We still had a family, in some ways a tribe.</div> <div> But our prayer was staring across valleys </div> <div> at Catskill peaks answering us</div> <div> with blue.  </div> <bR> <div> My brothers, once I dreamed </div> <div> of Cheyenne stallions and Cherokee fire.  </div> <div> My sister, once I cried for Chippewa bear medicine </div> <div> when they cut my tongue.  Can I pretend otherwise?  </div> <div> The last ceremony left to me is riding  </div> <div> the broken horses of love off cliffs. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> CONTENTS</div> <bR> <div> Marlon Brando Dies at 80     </div> <div> Half-Breed at Ten Years Old, the Great Depression      </div> <div> Her Pocahontas      </div> <div> Suzy Doll      </div> <div> Welcome to the Land of Ma'am      </div> <div> You Really Have      </div> <div> Old Man      </div> <div> Wonder Bread        </div> <div> Harvest      </div> <div> Tear      </div> <div> First Time       </div> <div> Your America, My Turtle Island     </div> <div> WHIM       </div> <div> Sexiest Tribe in America     </div> <div> Fear      </div> <div> Before Christmas That Year      </div> <div> Catskill      </div> <div> Tweed     </div> <div> Shadow Dream      </div> <div> Winter's End White Dream      </div> <div> Riding with Gold      </div> <div> Driving Home Tonight      </div> <div> Bering Strait Binary Star      </div> <div> The Last Words      </div> <div> White Dress       </div> <div> Raven Goes to College     </div> <div> Passing      </div> <div> When I am a Tree      </div> <div> I Wish I Had Written This Poetry      </div> <div> The Dirt in the Gallery Across from the Old Whorehouse      </div> <div> Bear      </div> <div> Whale Watch      </div> <div> Pemaquid      </div> <div> Holocaust Museum      </div> <div> Vincent Van Gogh Writes to Jeanne Louise Calment      </div> <div> Yellow Girl, I Give You      </div> <div> Fear of Bag Ladies      </div> <div> Canvas      </div> <div> When My Oldest Brother Turns      </div> <div> Buffalo Nickel Makes Return      </div> <div> Why I Love Being an Indian      </div> <div> After Reading Your Snow Poems      </div> <div> Encampment      </div> <div> Moon Seeing      </div> <div> One Good Indian Man      </div> <div> Bear Medicine      </div> <div> Rock Hard     </div> <div> Rock `n Roll Ravens      </div> <div> Burial      </div> <div> The Only Ceremony We Had Left To Us      </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>The Last Ceremony</I></div> <div> is an 88 page hand-sewn paper book with spine - $16.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE </div> <bR> <div> <B>            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="The Last Ceremony"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="07-10"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>     </B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail</U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U> c</U></A></FONT><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>lick here.</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>