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Jeweled with houseflies,\u003cbr\u003e leather rattles, foil-wrapped,\u003cbr\u003e ferment in beaked masks\u003cbr\u003e on the shores of evaporating lakes.\u003cbr\u003e This plot, now a hotel garden,\u003cbr\u003e its fountain gushing forth--\u003cbr\u003e the slashed wrists of the Colorado River.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSherwin Bitsui was raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them Flood Song, which won an American Book Award. 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