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Roadkill, Joshua Tree National
Park, California
Recollection:
Rise before dawn on a cold winter morning. Sleeping in
a rented car, the passenger seat of a Chevrolet sedan. One thin
blanket, cold. Ice on the windshield.
Stale chocolate chip
cookies and water for breakfast in the driver's seat. Start the car, drive out of the fully
paved campground. On the road, I pass a murdered jackrabbit. Roadkill. Stop the car, record
it. The sun just crests over the horizon, warmth begins. Drive more. Another
roadkill. Photograph this one too. How casual we are about the lives of
non-humans. I move the carcasses off the road, and drive on. |
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