Not by amulets but by words and scents and signs:the air awake and still, blue as flag or water hyacinth.Tone of neutrality. Color of equality. A middle spacewhere like things congregate,
The Invention of Floods
NOT LONG AGO, I VISITED SORONG, a city growing in concrete. Sorong’s infrastructure boom makes the consequences of building with concrete clear: concrete causes floods. Water rolls along horizontal concrete (including asphalt) and splashes off vertic
