Farm - 2023

Seedlings reach for artificial suns in the twilight of her apartment where memory and soil mingle. Lola's hands, white, settler, curious, hover above Neversink trays on Huron-Wendat and Anishinaabe land that keeps its name despite centuries of forgetting.

The growing season arrives with questions: who belongs to the earth and who just borrows? History and compost decompose together. She talks to tender shoots about roots while somewhere, her Palestinian family's olive trees witness a different story of land that entered her life through chosen kinship.

Into the soil go Three Sisters, corn reaching up, beans spiraling gently, squash spreading with casual confidence. Two displacements echo in her mind, Indigenous land beneath her feet, her Palestinian family's story an ocean away. Her dirt lined palms hold questions, not answers.

The land speaks through green persistence. Between history's weight and tomorrow's uncertainty, these fragile stems find their way skyward, following their own wild logic.