31

Coffee shop owner

Says something I said to her

Informs her business

30

If she says a bar,
I'll go, and if she says bars
I'll go to them all

29

cut watermelon
same knife I cut onion with
mixing the flavors

28

Ending an era
The last time this family
Will share food, for now

27

Wen helps me keep my
Promise I made that I'd give
Myself a weekend

26

There are four of us
Three towels in the bathroom
I choose green today

25

Drew holds my foot and
Michael is my pillow and
I stare at tail lights

24

I'll just dance and smoke
And laugh and swing my hair and
Be with these people

23

2:22 flash
Drive country roads, avoid deer
Contemplate hows, whys

22

Instantly reduced
(no power in Bemidji)
To giggles with Kalil

21

The intersection
Walk with tears at the ready
But I do not cry

20

Hang out on a lake
Sometimes a talk and a friend
Helps quiet the brain

19

...or, back on the road
airplane eyes give me tears for
all the good and bad

18

got stillness blues, or,
now that work is done I need
to face up to life

17

Happily, I drive
The final miles and hours of this
This time behind wheel

16

Open gate, she'll judge
The cacti until we find
Final shot of trip

15

Well fed we stick with
Our sunrise, sunset schedule
Hanging with horses

14

He, right to worry,
Was asleep while I drove on
Hallucinating

13

Pennies on train tracks

and eerie horse trailers but 

mostly I feel love.

12

Get Olivia’s

Dream shot on horse, then get to 

meet Drew’s mom and lauuugggggggghhhhh.

11

We’re loose, last day here.

And so goofy, so happy.

Hard work, but worth it.

10

Nonstop work, no time

To reflect on how good it

Feels to do this job.

9

Montana gives us

Lightning and we insist on

Proving we’re in it

8

While they work in church

I am in the van hiring

Her replacement. Sigh. 

7

Overnight hike and

we play games to stay alert,

warn the bears we’re here.

6

Rainbow on rainbow

In awe, amazed by what this

Place is giving us

5

Meet the family

Whose land we will use while we

Create this magic.

4

Drive into landscape

Settle in our week-long home

Hills of Montana

3

Debate swimmer’s itch

post Valley of Fire, Vegas,

Zzyzx all day drive.

2

House explodes for prep

People, wardrobe, gear and food

Work road trip ready

1

Trying to tie up
Loose ends but they keep slipping
Out from my fingers