Monthly Archives: May 2007

I am to fly out today. i will drive to agok, 30 km from abyei, and wait by the cracked landing strip with a few other desperate travellers each scanning the sky for a plane. the first thing we will … Continue reading →

at the entrance to compound one, there is a white board on which all of our movements are recorded. it has room for 2 weeks of Mondays through Sundays. when a week runs through, it is wiped off the board … Continue reading →

it’s not just a jane’s addiction song.

tired. the sky looks like it will fall. after a dozen cloudless mornings, blueblue afternoons, and sweltering starred nights, heavy black clouds hang above us, looming, ready to crash down. the wind has whipped up sand, and as we rush … Continue reading →

that boy, the one whose bone we drilled into with an hypodermic cannula, the one who i used as an example of our small therapeutic successes, the one who came to life after lying dry, drooping in his mother’s arms, … Continue reading →