"I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out.

I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible."

Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic,” in Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

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“This is not juxtaposition. Body and water are not two unlike things—they are more than close together or side by side. They are same—body, being, energy, prayer, current, motion, medicine. The body is beyond six senses. Is sensual. An ecstatic state of energy, always on the verge of praying, or entering any river of movement. Energy is a moving river moving my moving body.”

Natalie Díaz, “The First Water Is The Body.” Postcolonial Love Poem

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