You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
[…]
But on this day
we sit in that room and play cards together
while I slip my papers in the half-moon tray
and take a number, wait for someone
behind the bulletproof glass to say
take another. And I feel only love.
I don’t remember the fear of that year,
or the fear of the years that hover
before and after. I remember
the windowless room and, outside,
Beforetimes, Margot Kahn
illusions were frail and had to be kept intact.
houses that included soil and rosebushes
the atmosphere is one of displacement, of erroneous celebration.
Good Girl, Aria Aber
![Local helpers L'Atalaye [Haiti]](https://i0.wp.com/live.staticflickr.com/3953/15466696988_9088b80724_b.jpg?w=739&ssl=1)
Local helpers L’Atalaye [Haiti]
Creator: Watson Perrygo Local number: SIA2008-2532 Summary: The photograph documents Watson Perrygo’s field work with Arthur J. Poole in Haiti. Dates: 1928-1929 Collection: SIA RU 7306, Watson M. Perrygo Papers, circa 1880s-1979. Box 2, Folder 10. Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Image from page 33 of “Bulletin – United States National Museum” (1877)
Smithsonian Institution
United States National Museum
Buttetin 155
THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
by
ALEXANDER WETMORE
Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
AND
BRADSHAW H. SWALES
Honorary Assistant Curator of Birds United States National Museum
January 27, 1931
Flattery, deference, smiles, ringing laughter, affectionate greetings were the order of the day.
the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness,
a soldierly fixity of mind
a series of spastic clumsy gymnastic movements that were somehow accusatory,
He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.
(GS)
Zura Lagarde, The Silent Pulse Beneath Still Stone, Artmedia Gallery, April 25 – July 30, 2025.
“I perceive the spaces where time flickers—where déjà vu hums like a distant echo, where a breath feels borrowed from another life.”
Untitled (Diurnal respite on the Matanzas; inventing forms of escape; spend the good days readying for it.) 2020. Archival pigment print, 60 x 40 inches. Shown in Wander and Errancies at CEAM, 2020.
spend the good days readying for it might need an edit. It might refer to something that I noted; I will have to check. Spent good days readying for it. Spent the goods readying for it. Spent the good part of a day. Spent the better part of a day. Spent the good part of many days readying for it. Spent days readying for it. Spend days readying for it.
Only instruction. Not a dwelling.
Or if you must dwell:
The sweet smell of weeds then.
The sweet smell of weeds now.
An endurance. A standoff. A rest.
Weeds, Diane Seuss
