A Communal Careless Whisper

Some of my memories pin to a minute of love on a big screen in an imagined future, or broken open when the sax solo of “Careless Whisper” blows through the communal heart.

– Joy Harjo ‘Becoming Seventy’, in ‘An American Sunrise: Poems’ (Norton: New York, 2019) pp. 92-93.

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