Tess Taylor – Jan 11, 2022 Iyengar II

Funny what we remember and don’t. What’s that old chestnut about not remembering and being doomed to repeating?

At the Dorothea Lange Elementary School

the secretary frowns: We don’t study her.

At Jocko's steakhouse, the bartender nods:

My family's been here 150 years.

Yeah, we know about her.

How she photographed that woman.

The people coming through.

Yeah, the migrant mother:

People in this town are still always coming through—