It looks so sad and lovely to see almost everyone holding the flowers, many already wilting, as fragile and ephemeral as all Life is.
Archive for October, 2011
For Alianna: part 2, A Child’s Funeral Flowers
Posted in Guyana 2011, Rupununi, tagged child, death, flowers, girl, rupununi, song on October 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For Alianna: part 1, Well of Sorrow
Posted in Guyana 2011, Rupununi, tagged child, death, rupununi on October 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A little girl with a crown of pink, yellow, and orange flowers haunts my unguarded moments. She looks like she is sleeping, but there is water seeping from her nose. Three years old, her beautiful light brown face framed by long black hair loose in the white sheet wrapped around her small body. *** (names [...]
