Subjects were identified by their clothing.

Subjects were baptized with new names by other gods.

Subjects categorized by animalia.

Subjects separated by gender, age, and tribe.

Subjects were prepared, posed, and some were even paid.

Subjects live again as ancestors and archives.

Future ancestors remember the stories in

our bones. Future ancestors will ask you questions,

will remind you of your light, your recovering

of ink patterns and messages scrawled onto wood.

Of unfinished hems, frail fishing traps, and old flags.

Begin again as stories unsettling the dust.