how to define a territory

if weighing its volume

measuring its length

defining who owns the thin line

that drafts its edges

would create an abstraction of its own?

 

to define a territory is to envoke the hudders and

murmurs of the crowds that have passed through it

to ground its hectic movments

and sur tout

listen

the stream of water is near.

...

 

M'boi Mirim in Tupi means river of small snakes. It

was a former village of the Guaianases Indians on

what we know today as the edge of the south zone,

São Paulo, Brazil