HTO by Christina Palassio

Author:Christina Palassio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRV010000
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2008-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

A photograph in winter: the street nurses make their way up a snowy slope of the Rosedale ravine, carefully, sleeping bags under their arms, the emissaries of the comfortable world, toward an improvised tent, toward people who live without comfort.

Another photograph: a very thin, aged man, surrounded by piles of plywood, his few possessions, a notebook in his lap, on the bank of the Don. His name is Fred. ‘I’m not homeless,’ he says, fists clenched in determination. ‘This is my home.’

And another: Peter, a younger man, looking nervously out from a dwelling he has built from branches and covered with leaves, hidden, safe.

Many things have brought these men here. For all of them, probably, there is some desire to escape, to hide from the city, from the world of other people. And yet they are here, they are part of our ecosystem. We may see their tents when the subway passes over the Don. They may be fathers or brothers or sons who are lost; forgotten or remembered. There is someone or something that each of them loves.

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