Telling the Truth

dreams drift
abandoned
hopes die

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If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you’ll see our woman standing at the far end of the corridor, arms folded, facing this installation art.  Perhaps pondering these drifting dream boats? I don’t know.

Here’s what the Colorado Spring Fine Arts website says about this evocative installation art, first hung in 2012. “Manitou Springs artist Floyd Tunson’s work often responds to political or social injustice, with Haitian Dream Boats as no exception. Motivated by the fleets of makeshift vessels attempting to flee Haiti’s Duvalier regimes and the subsequent tragedies that often befell the refugees, Tunson was inspired to construct a dozen boats with materials he had on-hand. . . .”

My choice of words in the last line of the haiku is intentional.
Hope itself doesn’t die; abandoned hopes die.
Some, tragically.

© Elouise Renich Fraser, 9 March 2015
Photo credit: DAFraser, July 2013
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado