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The Desert Weeps for No One
The crags and spires of the Baboquivari mountains loom above the bajada where we stand, looking out on a dry desert expanse without end. Wind, rain, and time have sculpted an alien landscape that is rugged and rocky beyond belief.
Death Steps Back a Pace
We finish eating takeout at midnight. Stomachs churn with apprehension as we move closer to the end of this strange day, our first without you. We’ve brought weed and melatonin and essential oils from as far as the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to California.
Odyssey
Inside its cardboard box, the bird seems to sense that freedom is near. As a volunteer for the local wildlife rescue organization, I often transport sick, injured or orphaned birds to their hospital. On this September day, though, I’m to release this healed bird back to the wild.
Gabriel and the Rhinemaidens
Gabriel Miles fled from his classroom in the only fine-arts building of the only English-speaking college in Vienna, walked fast and then almost ran down the concrete steps and onto the cobblestones, past a shoe store and a bookstore and sex-toy shop and a plaque
All Things Must Pass
During my senior year of college, a therapist will tell me I think too much and ask me to explain what it is like in my head, but right now, we are stuck in a traffic jam on a highway that winds around and over downtown.