Haitian impressions

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The images that I could not/did not capture in photographs...

— the people lined up to go into the remaining room of a collapsed house in Port au Prince, some people climbing up the rubble to get into the yellow room, others below in what must have been a driveway

— the boy bathing from a basin by his tent

— the two goats sleeping on top of a family mausoleum (families build house-looking structures for the dead in their yards)

— the two young women waiting for their violin lesson behind the ruins of the Episcopal cathedral, Sainte Trinité in Port au Prince

— the Roman Catholic cathedral mostly gone

— the wild donkeys, goats and cows crossing the roads

— the charred remains of tires from various barricades

— beautiful sunlight filtering down through the clouds over the bay

— tent after tent after tent even out in the country

— steep mountainsides

— men going at limestone hill quarries with just a pick axe

— flat plains with wide-open expanses of land

— pot holes!

— a woman walking down the street with a large chicken under one arm, box on head; a man carrying two chickens and a bag of rice that trickled a trail of rice behind him

— the palpable anxiety of Haitians as they awaited the results of the election

That's just for starters.