Myself Dry

All day you're tired, staring into the bar and distracted by the slot machine music, it's like your brain won't settle, and nothing turns up right. But the desert air sinks into your veins, the kindness of strangers and the words whispered through tumbleweeds, you settle and see the magic through the dust. Tonight we drove out into complete darkness and when I opened my eyes, the entire Milky Way stretched out into infinity around us. I laughed and cried at the same time like it was the exact same thing and in that moment it was. A star shot across the expanse, you wished for all the gifts of the universe and felt already they had been given to you. He sends you music; it seeps into your spine. The hotel sheets are soft to the touch. You sleep like you never felt fear.

Stories unravel into the dark. You catch them like the river between your fingers.