Outdigenous

A dog is not a dog
in languages where it is
a wolf and no man's friend

Every language has, or had
words that do not translate to others

Seven hundred languages in Australia
before English discovered them to death

How many in the Americas, many to few 
their words for mourning not here for this poem

Aboriginal pictograph, Kakadu National Park, Arnhem Land, Australia

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