A poetic‐ethnographic reflection from Medellín

Nos Vemos and Amphibian City are two poems born from a decade of ethnographic engagement in Medellín, Colombia, where poetic expression became a method of inquiry and relation. These poems reflect a practice of listening‐with the city, its waters, memories, communities, and more‐than‐human rhythms, offering a situated, affective account of place and co‐becoming. Drawing from decolonial and feminist frameworks, they resist extractivist modes of representation and instead flow with lived experience, memory, and collective care. Nos Vemos speaks to the temporalities of parting and return in long‐term fieldwork, weaving together stories of solidarity, trauma, and hope. Amphibian City traces the submerged and resurfacing presences of River Medellín and the nearby Santa Elena creek within the city's social, ecological, and political life. These poems emerge from practices of co‐labor and Buen Vivir as lived and adapted by Medellín's communities, without claiming to appropriate their cosmologies. Through poetic ethnography, the work seeks to create space for relational knowledge that is unfinished, plural, and transformative. The poems invite readers to listen, to feel, and to imagine otherwise through water, memory, and rhythm as paths toward collective healing and more just, amphibian futures.