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==== Of Bees and Migrants ==== | ==== Of Bees and Migrants ==== | ||
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Place a beehive on my grave \\ | Place a beehive on my grave \\ | ||
And let the honey soak through.\\ | And let the honey soak through.\\ | ||
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In oppressive July heat we move along rough and tumble Pipeline Road in the mountains east of Ajo, Arizona, delivering water to remote migrant aid stations in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. In the Despoblado, the spectral is everywhere and nowhere. Bodies are ' | In oppressive July heat we move along rough and tumble Pipeline Road in the mountains east of Ajo, Arizona, delivering water to remote migrant aid stations in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. In the Despoblado, the spectral is everywhere and nowhere. Bodies are ' | ||
There is material evidence of migrant crossers along Pipeline Road: plastic gallon water jugs, homemade moccasins (to reduce tracking by the Border Patrol), blankets and bedding, backpacks, hats, clothing, bordados (hand embroidered cloths used to wrap possessions), | There is material evidence of migrant crossers along Pipeline Road: plastic gallon water jugs, homemade moccasins (to reduce tracking by the Border Patrol), blankets and bedding, backpacks, hats, clothing, bordados (hand embroidered cloths used to wrap possessions), | ||
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We come upon a site strewn with more than a score of abandoned rotting beehives and objects discarded by passing migrants. We wander about the materialities, | We come upon a site strewn with more than a score of abandoned rotting beehives and objects discarded by passing migrants. We wander about the materialities, | ||
The abandoned rotting beehives and objects themselves are vibrant and forceful, radiating sensations sensible and insensible, vibrating with the inexhaustible Sonoran desert landscape. | The abandoned rotting beehives and objects themselves are vibrant and forceful, radiating sensations sensible and insensible, vibrating with the inexhaustible Sonoran desert landscape. | ||
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- | This is the language of waves and radiation, or how the dead speak to the living. | + | This is the language of waves and radiation, or how the dead speak to the living.\\ |
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Dust and Shadow Reader [[reader_2|Vol. 2]]. Previous: [[bee diaspora]]. Next: [[water knife]] | Dust and Shadow Reader [[reader_2|Vol. 2]]. Previous: [[bee diaspora]]. Next: [[water knife]] | ||