SARGASSO


and all the others flowed. I though about the children

I saw suffering there. Some of the images are real,

taken from all the places I visited. I would go out and

walk about those terrible slums; I saw those children

dying from hunger, with bellies full of parasites, women

bathing in the brackish water of the gutters, and then

drinking the same water. All of it makes Haiti a marvelous

and terrible country at the same time. This is the

experience I wrote about.



 Josemilio Gonzalez


(Translated by Aileen Alvarez)