before you go, things left undone. loose ends, too many to tie so quickly.

like the name says, we were there together. and it wasn’t long before we had built a fire and stargazing became staring down

tension stretching strings of muscle in the dirt warmth next to wildflowers, my feet stepping in prayers.

when you get started and you don’t… start digging slowly and softly, move things around. i turned over a rock

refreshing to know there’s still n… that’s unsure of its footing. love that’s unsure of what to do a… standing in the truck head-light g… feeling small

Truck sounds like metal on metal– grinding coughing hard–

jump in the truck, and disappear in moments measured in rust, that flakes off in the friction of…

the still rising sun calls to you to rise; early morning dawn light brings you to a particular log and leaves you there,

something feels as though it is at unease because it has not settled.

Fish fry in Benoit. Joyce brings a hundred dollars in… almost right to your mouth and you wonder if it’s just too easy

some metal piece out of place disturbs everything and suddenly i’m windbound on a calm night. left to my own devices,

After close, the image loosens until it is just being held together.

we held the dream between our holding hands. we held our hands in the warmth of my coat pocket

everyone sees the red-torn deer ca… the mess made dragging her to be shouldered, everyone gawks and shifts the weight of

sit in a tunnel fall at the northernmost point trip around the sun.