this is how you lay the dead to rest. 
divination through dreams and ritualistic practices to retrieve the dead. returning to them so as to return ourselves to our bodies.

i thought a lot about saidiya hartmann's offering of a narrative writing methodology called critical fabulation (in her piece "venus in two acts") and how we revive the dead when the path we travel down to find them is laden with death, how do we ensure we don't deal death…