St. Pierre parish,
Baradères, Haiti
Sister parish of St. John the Baptist, Silver
Spring, Md.
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Outside the hospital gate, a handful of 1- and 2-room homes are under construction. Upon leaving Lumiere, patches of sugar cane, clusters of agave, fences of spindly cactus, and randomly distributed hardy plants and coconut palms appear in the foreground.
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Advertising sign on the upper right of rural "bank" (lottery) at left has a drawing of a cell phone and the message: "Call center at Pierre's." |
In tiny villages of shacks, a chicken strolls across the road (don't ask me why), as do a lean pig sow and her five black piglets. A bony cow grazes weeds at the road's edge; a healthier one grazes out in a field. 
At a high point that we dubbed "cellphone mountain," we stop because it is the only place for Sr. Marta from the Baradères clinic to communicate with the outside world. As we wait, a boy whips his donkey fiercely, and they vanish over a hill. Returning with stagnant water (donkey's in its stomach, boy's in plastic bottles) from a quarry pit, the boy pets the donkey lovingly.
