Sunday, January 25, 2009

Gone

According to Devan seven people died when the hillside adjacent to the road leading up to our house gave way in early December. Looking at the devastation of the area it seems paradoxically lucky that there were so few fatalities.

We took some of the pictures from the road right next to where the landslide occurred. The houses there are now deserted, the owners, I suppose, in an odd limbo of not knowing quite where they can safely live anymore.

The normal, the routine, can only ever be a fragile tissue holding together the strangeness of what lies beneath.

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