James A. Reeves
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Mojave Desert

We searched for 10,000 acres of sand.

Death Valley is a place where ten thousand acres of scenery can easily go missing.

Mojave Desert

Towers of red rock loomed over us like a beautiful threat.

Shuffling through nature’s silence with strangers felt oddly intimate.

Mojave Desert

A landscape that functions like memory.

Twenty miles west of Barstow, where the desert appears especially endless, I glimpsed the Tank Man in Tiananmen Square.

Mojave Desert

Yet the interesting scenery on the horizon never seems to draw closer.

My little tics and anxieties seem to be moving from the vexing to the comic. Perhaps this is one happy side effect of getting older.

Mojave Desert

The sensation of slippage continues.

The desert is littered with bizarre facts, and I often think I invented them, like a fragment from a dream or a misremembered film.

Mojave Desert

October 23, 2021

There’s a woman who can tell you the future by deciphering the contrails of experimental military aircraft.

Mojave Desert

October 21, 2021

A quiet day in the desert spent watching the shadows of the Joshua trees grow.

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