from: The last song (1975) (Puerto del Sol Press, chapbook no. 1): Watching crow, looking south toward the Manzano Mountains ;-- "for a hopi silversmith" -- San Juan Pueblo and South Dakota are 800 miles away on a map -- "he told me his name was sitting bull" -- 3 a.m. -- "the last song" -- Are you still there?-- Conversations between here and home. --

from: What moon drove me to this? (1979) ( I. Reed Books): Four horse songs -- I am a dangerous woman -- There was a dance, sweetheart -- Crossing the border -- Someone talking -- Fire. --

from: She had some horses (1983) (Thunder's Mouth Press): Call it fear -- Anchorage -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak -- The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window -- White bear -- Skeleton of winter -- Remember -- New Orleans -- She had some horses -- I give you back. --

from: Secrets from the center of the world (1989) (University of Arizona Press): My house is the red earth -- If you look with the mind of the swirling earth -- If all events are related -- This land is a poem -- Anything that matters -- Invisible fish -- Don't bother the earth spirit -- It is an honor. --

from: In mad love and war (1990) (Wesleyan University Press): Grace -- Deer dancer -- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars -- Trickster -- Bird -- The real revolution is love -- Song for the deer and myself to return on -- Rainy dawn -- Santa Fe -- Desire -- The book of myths -- Transformations -- Eagle poem. --

from: The woman who fell from the sky (1994) (W.W. Norton): Reconciliation, a prayer -- The creation story -- The woman who fell from the sky -- The flood -- A postcolonial tale -- The myth of blackbirds -- The song of the house in the house -- Letter from the end of the twentieth century -- Promise of blue horses -- The place the musician became a bear -- Fishing -- Promise -- The dawn appears with butterflies -- Perhaps the world ends here. --

from: A map to the next world : poems and tales (2000) (W.W. Norton): Songline of dawn -- A map to the next world -- The end -- Emergence -- Songs from the house of death, or, How to make it through to the end of a relationship -- The path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles -- The power of never -- Hold up -- Returning from the enemy -- The ceremony -- This is my heart -- Protocol -- Morning song. --

New poems, 1999-2001: In praise of earth -- Letter (with songline) to the Breathmaker -- I am not ready to die yet -- Naming -- Faith -- Equinox -- Ah, ah -- Morning prayers -- The everlasting -- And if I awaken in Los Angeles -- It's raining in Honolulu -- Rushing the Pali -- When the world as we knew it ended.