in Joy Harjo's "New Orleans", the line "beaten silver paths" refers to the streets of such city. She remembers of certain Spanish conqueror, De Soto,who came to this lands searching for, and constantly states that he wouldn't find it here. Maybe is a mock to that fact.
The "silver blades and crosses" refers to the sword and crucifix of the conqueror, who drawn in the Mississippi river which dreamt of those items. Maybe this means that the streets of New Orleans were made of the things and dreams of the many conquerors who came to that land in search for gold and failed.
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saturday
Explanation:
it fits the amount of letters and it would make sense if someone was talking about a specific day on the weekend
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skin
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Further, the narrator tells the readers, “All depends, all depends on the skin,/all depends on the skin you're living in”(45-46), repeatedly throughout the poem to emphasize the irony that one's skin color can dictate the way they are able to live, and the way other's force them to live.
