Rivers speak with many voices. They sing, they whisper, they roar. But if rivers could communicate in a language we understood—if they could speak for themselves—what would they say? What could a river teach us? How differently would we view them? In “A River’s Own Name,” a stirring poem both heartbreaking and achingly beautiful, Cameron Keller Scott (@cameronfishtrap) dives into the secrets that rivers keep, searching for the components that make a river a river. A longtime writer, teacher and fly-fishing guide, Scott explains that his poem is “meant to give the river a voice outside of human naming and history in a language that’s innately understood ... In my search for hope, I’ve deepened my experience of the natural world ... from one of reverence and recreation to humility, advocacy and the idea that the natural world has a voice and rights equal to the human-built world.” Read the full poem through our link in bio.