Sunday morning beside the statue to Alexandre Pétion, Champ de Mars, Port-au-Prince, January 2004.
In a moving piece in the Miami Herald, Edwidge Danticat recalls the Kreyòl proverb, Ayiti se tè glise, Haiti is slippery ground:
'Haiti has never been more slippery ground than it is right now. Bodies littering the streets. Entire communities buried in rubble. Homes pancaked to dust.
For those of us who know and love Haiti, now our hearts are also slippery ground. We are hopeful one moment then filled with despair the next. '
created by Alasdair Pettinger Tue 19 Jan 2010 1:50 GMT+0000
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