{N/uu}
Ouma Katrina
The last fluent speaker
The weight of history
Upon her shoulders
A race against time
The tortoise and ostrich
The !Qhoi and Tjhoi
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{Otjiherero}
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{Pirahã}
Gifts of survival
Come from
The land
And water
Equilibrium
Is the law of the land
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{Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì}

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PuisiPoetry style writing and poetic micro stories about different languages and cultures Abstract Fragmented Stream of consciousness Cover painted by L Dunkley