The Machine of History

In Blaisdell – the basement of the Claremont Colleges Library – I am

surrounded by white acid free storage boxes

I am

surrounded by tattered books

I am

consumed by something:

an archival aesthetic

I am

lost

in the machine of history

In Blaisdell – the basement of the Claremont Colleges Library – I am

among lives, among secrets

some discovered, others undiscovered, some discovered and never shared