January 10, 2008

Lost in the Snow

Driving at night with a misted windscreen behind a utility truck that strobes orange flashes over the hills, every flash an object flying at us.

Wake up. We should wake up.

I remember those drives, those dreams so well.... Where did humankind find its nightmares before the automobile?

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.