Erika Dreifus

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

In some places they say when volcanoes
erupt, they spew out dense and monumental
as stones the skulls of desaparecidos
—the disappeared ones.

Source: Olive Senior, “Brief Lives” (from Gardening in the Tropics)