bs2Oct 9, 2023
> 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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The First Water Is the Body – Natalie Diaz

“We carry the river, its body of water, in our body.” In a bracing prose poem, Mojave / Akimel O’odham poet Natalie Diaz articulates the continuity between her body and the body of the Colorado River.

Emergence Magazine