Sublime

Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.

If you’re standing on a small pile of shit, fighting for your one place to stand, God almighty how you fight.

Their kinship will work like an unfolding book. The past always comes clearer, in the future.

Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.