{"id":2521,"date":"2026-06-16T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:00:22","slug":"16-summer-shards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/16\/16-summer-shards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"#16 summer shards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, I came across some hand drawn maps I had made for my parents. By drawing these maps I was charting my own life as well as aiming to communicate the geography to my New York City based parents of the life Warren and I were imagining. I was not sure they understood the lines that connected the rolling hills of Virginia to their urban artist existence. The tentacles of our love enticed them to visit and once here they understood the water, dirt, and light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maps
for Marcelo<\/em><\/strong>

Some maps have blue borders
like the blue of your name
or the tributary lacing of
veins running through your
father\u2019s hands. & how the last
time I saw you, you held
me for so long I saw whole
lifetimes flooding by me
small tentacles reaching
for both our faces. I wish
maps would be without
borders & that we belonged
to no one & to everyone
at once, what a world that
would be. Or not a world
maybe we would call it
something more intrinsic
like forgiving or something
simplistic like river or dirt.
& if I were to see you
tomorrow & everyone you
came from had disappeared
I would weep with you & drown
out any black lines that this
earth allowed us to give it\u2014
because what is a map but
a useless prison? We are all
so lost & no naming of blank
spaces can save us. & what
is a map but the delusion of
safety? The line drawn is always
in the sand & folds on itself
before we\u2019re done making it.
& that line, there, south of
el rio, how it dares to cover
up the bodies, as though we
would forget who died there
& for what? As if we could
forget that if you spin a globe
& stop it with your finger
you\u2019ll land it on top of someone
living, someone who was not
expecting to be crushed by thirst\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Yesenia Montilla, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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