The rats multiply

And meander all about

And forage in the woods

And in the rafters

And travel through the coverage sewers

And drainage holes

The people increase in number

And wander all around

And wander about the market place

And live on top of one another

And travel down the streets

And along the back alley ways

The people and the rats

Live side by side

With one another

As they have for centuries

And in times of urgent necessity

Sometimes they live upon one another

And thus, my ethnographic conclusion

The rats and the people are inseparably bound

In a strange kind of ecosystem

Where the one leaves off

The other begins

And in the process its sometimes difficult

Especially in the dusk and the dust

To tell the difference between the two

The Great Wall Revisited

Trails in the Snow

1991-1993