The automobile propels us insanely down a long hill. Tremendous wind through open windows deafens, leaving us without voice. Sunup to sundown across scorched dirt and asphalt makes us thankful for the desert’s night air. Below in darkness, we see lights. A small village, looks like. Our driver not [...]

It began slowly at first, a little wiggle here, some foot shaking and twisting there. Once started, no one ever stopped. Early on, it was mostly the adults dancing, but then children too, and finally, even newborns came forth quivering and quaking. The entire world got that flop and fling, that boun [...]

1. Unlost

Awake, staring into darkness, the lamplighter sees the child found alive, wrapped in her deceased mother’s shawl and covered by her body, dead by bullets at Wounded Knee. Alive, it’s Her Long Medicine and her daughter called Dreams Holy in a photograph. Beautiful [...]

Not going anywhere, no plans to go anywhere.

"Could take a drive. Get out of town."

"Yeah, and? How far out?"

"I don't know, an hour. Or two hours, get dinner. Four round trip."

"No restaurant."

"Order out, eat in the car."

Sure, get in motion, feel like we're going somewhere. Take [...]

Just north of the Thuringian Forest, home to magic mirrors, talking frogs, Hansel, Gretel and their cannibalistic witch, along the Horsel River, is Eisenach, birthplace of Bach. Father and daughter tour Wartburg Castle. The old man wanted to see Europe, not with a gun. Fighting with the Rolling W, t [...]

“Hey Googy, how's it goin?”

“Hey man, good, good.  You gotta a cigarette?”

“No Goog.  Whad'ya been doin?”

“Not much.  Thinking about goin to electronics school.”

“Right, I remember that.”

Nothing changes with Googy, always bumming a smoke, skinny in his baggy co [...]

Openings lead to openings in darkness, miles below. They shovel ore into steel bins pulled to the surface and dumped, hour after hour, day after day. Clink clink go their mattocks and picks. No one knows the time. Years ago, many years ago it must be, the last light extinguished, yet they work on.  [...]