Mimata-cho Kabayama, Okimizu River

Natalie Diaz's writing inspired me to start visiting the nearest river again.

> How can I translate—not in words but in belief—that a river is a body, as alive as you or I, that there can be no life without it?

- https://emergencemagazine.org/

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> But who is this translation for and will they come to my language’s four-night funeral to grieve what has been lost in my efforts at translation? When they have drunk dry my river will they join the mourning procession across our bleached desert?
https://emergencemagazine.org/poem/the-first-water-is-the-body/
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