The lake is frozen, a glazed white plate suspended in the dark. I long to hear your voice. Hushed, deep murmurs in the cold quiet, and low laughter echoing in the still. I like to sleep with pi on smoke. The cold dry air chills my skin, my breath.
Stories descend into the dark, warm, light circles.
Oh these nights. My blessed bounty of dreams. With Tapahonso's critical and popular success have come comparisons of her works to those written by such acclaimed Native American women writers as Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich. Though Tapahonso shares with Silko and Erdrich a powerful and distinctive female voice, she has an unique vision and with that vision, her own story to tell. After attending Navajo Methodist School in Farmington, New Mexico, and Shiprock High School, Tapahonso entered the University of New Mexico.