Santa Teresa + Samara + Monteverde + La Fortuna | April 2021

“On my first night in Costa Rica I started a book of poems. Black Girl, Call Home. Home. They say it's within us. They say it's wherever we are. They say it can be built brand new whenever we need to. I've found these things to be true. I've also found them not to be. Go on, Black girl. Call home. Maybe home is a book of poems you buy in paperback so you can feel the pages on your skin. Your soiled fingers smudging the print. Sand stuck in the spine. The ocean breeze coaxing the pages to turn before you're ready. Or maybe today home is just things you can hold in your hands.”

-Tess Thomas