Part One : How It Came to Be
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
"For any spark to make a song ..."
"Listened to an alto sax player ..."
"Humans were created by mistake ..."
Once the World Was Perfect
"When I woke up from a forty-year sleep ..."
"After years you realize ..."
Entering the Principality of O'ahu by Sky Roads
"Each human is a complex, contradictory story ..."
We Were There When Jazz Was Invented
"This is only one of many worlds ..."
"When I blow my horn ..."
Beautiful Baby, Beautiful Child.
"'One way to look at it,' he told me ..."
Spirit Walking in the Tundra
"Where we lived, the settlers built their houses ..."
"Let's not shame our eyes ..."
"Midnight is a horn player ..."
"When I walk over to join you in the two-step ..."
Had-It-Up-to-Here Round Dance
"'Through these doors walk some of the finest ... '"
One Day There Will Be Horses
"When I returned to my ancestral grounds ..."
"Our Mvskoke new year is inherently ..."
The First Day Without a Mother.
Part Three : Visions and Monsters
"Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries ..."
"This is the kitchen table university ..."
Listening to Blues in a Fish Joint, Downtown Denver
"I would do anything for you, baby ..."
Indian School Night Song Blues
"Do not feed the monsters ..."
"We all have helpers ..."
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies
"Ah, but what about being ..."
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
"The first horn I played ..."
"And then I argued with myself ..."
I Am Not Ready to Die Yet
"Whenever a saxophone begins ..."
Report from the Edge of a Terrible Regime
"In one house lives the sun ..."
"What kept me going was that perfect song ..."
The Last World of Fire and Trash.
You Can Change the Story, My Spirit Said to Me as I Sat Near the Sea
"Those who could see into the future predicted the storm ..."
"I knew there was no way ..."
"The day went on as it always had ..."
"Time is a being, like you, like me ..."
"I thought of all the doors ..."
"I returned to the city of country swing ..."
"I heard a raven cry the blues ..."
Everybody Has a Heartache
"Everyone comes into the world ..."
"I keep thinking of my boyfriend ..."
"My friend Sarita went visiting ..."
"I confided in him the longing ..."
"'What are you doing there, soul ... '"