This past weekend Kamau limped his way onto our compound and I saw immediately that the small wound on his foot was infected. The flesh on the top of his foot was bulging and pus oozed from the circular wound where the nurses had placed the drip. He checked out of the hospital […]
Archive for February, 2008
Today I woke up from my new bed in a backroom of the church, dressed, picked my automatic weapon from the floor and returned it to its daytime place underneath my mattress, then I walked outside to meet the dawn and to find our dog, Simba, entertaining one of his wives. (He’s an awful creature, […]
About three weeks ago Kamau was brought to our home in the middle of the week by his stepmother. This was odd in and of itself, because Kamau is one of our weekend kids and his stepmother rarely visits us. He was deliriously ill, having contracted malaria a day or so before. […]
I’ve been thinking about this for over a month. I’ve been thinking about how, for the better part of an hour, we followed a dirt path that coiled around huts and split apart and spread out into nothingness only to reconvene in grooves and crimped earth like deep gashes and pinched flesh. The path portraying […]
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