Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: May 2005

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 6" (1938) — Jacob Lawrence, *The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 6. The birth of Toussaint L'Ouverture, May 20, 1743. Both of Toussaint's parents were slaves.* (1938)

Workbook: May, 2005

May 31, 2005: Black lettering on a white background, flying from the yardarm like a pirate flag.
May 30, 2005: The street level is given over to cars and heat.
May 29, 2005: At the border crossing the women guards disbelieve my passport photo.
May 28, 2005: The monks are experienced canvassers.
May 27, 2005: The serving staff circle like airliners on holding pattern.
May 26, 2005: Young man, twenty, strong-looking, tanned, shirtless...
May 25, 2005: Around the dinner table one evening the grownups discussed domestic gender roles.
May 24, 2005: Dialog with the dead.
May 23, 2005: How do you reject someone for putting you down...
May 22, 2005: Three peculiar ideologies of the work which artists do.
May 21, 2005: Unintentional psychic vampires fit two important criteria.
May 20, 2005: What may a truly evil person be?
May 19, 2005: To be a Christian...
May 18, 2005: In the dust on the old man's shelves...
May 17, 2005: Elderly gentleman, retired.
May 16, 2005: In mockery and amused contempt: "It doesn't have a balance control!"
May 15, 2005: From among the gray-white headstones a thin string dances.
May 14, 2005: Several members of your department are seated together in a rental car shuttle bus.
May 13, 2005: "Stockholm Syndrome".
May 12, 2005: Even sadder to realize that her isolation began so early.
May 11, 2005: She taught me to drive a stick-shift...
May 10, 2005: Stacks and stacks of combination locks new in boxes...
May 9, 2005: Which isn't such a difficult question.
May 8, 2005: Those two examples are excellent illustrations of doing the right thing in abusive situations.
May 7, 2005: Senior executive, high-flying dot-com.
May 6, 2005: Tiny puppy, hairless...
May 5, 2005: Blood, dripping from a bruised and cut eyelid, slowly swelling.
May 4, 2005: Sandy-haired man leans from a second-floor balcony shouting into the street...
May 3, 2005: Apologies, unasked for, over mistaken decisions from forty years ago.
May 2, 2005: Your old room.
May 1, 2005: The switchboard operator seems irritated.