The Narrative Image

Driving east of Pasco A cold wind blows – buffets the car like a boxer - seemingly inhospitable Migrating bushes recklessly play chicken with cars – end up as grill decorations - gather together at barbed wire fences - share tales of their exploits The land ripples and undulates as if it were water Postulate God. Does God watch the continents flow like we watch streams in the sand? Second-hand topsoil – courtesy of Montana? Silt and dust blown across half a continent and some significant portion of an epoch Palouse Falls State Park - Washington Mindlessly following gravity’s imperative, water probes faults and chips away at basalt barriers. On one hand friendly and supportive of life, water is three faced and fickle and remains god’s tool of choice for wiping the earth clean of humanity – though fire is certainly in the running. Magnificent floods spawned by an ice-age lake helped scour out this canyon to reveal early flows of lava – rivers of once...