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pt. 1. Varied prayers -- A prayer for the lost -- A post card from Devils Tower -- Sifting the ashes of Greek fire -- Last song of the dove -- Verdell's morning constitutional -- Another Indian murder -- For my Lakota woman -- pt. 2. Vagrant cousins -- Dreaming of Deer Woman -- Spirit-deer deep in pine forests -- Verdell : two soliloquies -- Reclaiming an old debt -- Fullblood girl on a blue horse -- Tangled up in lilac -- A brand new snag -- Notes on the new dark ages -- Ghosts dance among the pine trees outside the Kmart -- The heart is also flesh -- Sonnenkinder -- Jake's assessment of last winter -- pt. 3. The blood thirst of Verdell Ten Bears -- pt. 4. Circles of flight -- Crow song -- In the little Waldorf Saloon at the end of the 20th century -- High plains hailstorm -- Jake and Royce -- Summer solstice at Taos -- Dakotah Territory hard times -- Blame it on the dog, he's dead -- I see an Indian girl I used to know near Larimer Street in Denver -- Stoned to the bone -- A savage blood thirst -- Listening to Verdell -- Indian giver -- pt. 5. Postscripts -- Relapse : blue spring at Pine Ridge -- Practicing death songs -- Little white lies -- Note to a culture vulture -- That great wingless bird -- Burial detail -- Getting ready to go cold turkey -- Questions while smoking the pipe -- The great American fly novel -- A rudimentary lesson in American Indian journalism -- The boys cruise Seattle -- Fish fry at a Panhandle bar -- Graffiti dialogue in a Nebraska bordertown laundramat -- White bread blues -- Between blue Earth -- Cherry tomato.
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