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Quotes from Preface to Silt: Prose Poems — Aurora Levins Morales

born 1954 Puerto Rico

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We cannot be owned. We cannot own each other. And there is no such thing as a particle of US soil.

Preface to Silt: Prose Poems (2019)

sediment has no nationality. Sediment drifts from place to place, on currents of water and air, on muskrat fur and the feathers of Indigo Buntings. It travels without passports, visas, or allegiances.

Preface to Silt: Prose Poems (2019)

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