"The corn people have a song too. It is very good"

Weren't you listening? According to the tenets of what he called New Criticism, John Crowe Ransom defined a poem as a loose logical structure with a good deal of local texture. Since my talk has probably come pretty close to that, I'll end with a real poem, returning to the Pueblo and my mischievous friend - and for five wonderful years, my colleague at the University of Toronto - Simon Ortiz.