Why Hasn’t the World Set on Fire?

Image by Siyavash Lolo.

“To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.” – James Baldwin

An aerial photo shows rectangular tracings etched into dirt, one rectangle after the other, creating a grid across the land. A yellow excavator pulls piles of earth out from within the rectangular lines until each rectangle is six feet deep, then it moves onto the next. Men jump into the graves and shovel out what the excavator couldn’t reach. We don’t know if these men are the ones burying their own daughters...