Going Home By: Maurice Kenny

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Going HomeBy Maurice Kenny

• Interpreted By
• Cheryl Woodson

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the book lay unread in my lap
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snow gathered at the window
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from Brooklyn it was a long ride
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the Greyhound followed the plow
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from Syracuse to Watertown
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to country cheese and maples
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tired rivers and closed paper millshome to
gossipy aunts...
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their dandelions and pregnant cats
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home to cedars and fields of boulders
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cold graves under willow and pine
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home from Brooklyn to the reservationthat was
not home
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to songs I could not sing
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to dances I could not dance
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from Brooklyn bars and ghetto rats
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to steaming horses stomping frozen earth
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barns and privies lost in blizzards
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home to a Nation, Mohawk
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to faces, I did not know
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and hands which did not recognize me
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to names and doorsmy father shut
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Credits

• Pictures from
• http//www.webshots.com
• http//www.gallery.yahoo.com
• Music from
• Robbie Robertson-Music for the Native
  Americans-01-Coyote Dance