James A. Reeves
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Las Vegas

Church attendance is lowest in Nevada.

I had no idea there was so much weather in the desert. By now, I thought I’d be begging for a cloud.

Las Vegas

And entropy makes itself known to me.

I told myself it was a trick of the light rather than the result of the grey in my beard.

Mojave Desert

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

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

Los Angeles

Landscapes that look like scenes from tomorrow.

William Kentridge’s smoldering landscapes look like scenes from a fast-approaching future. Meanwhile, a Chinese surveillance balloon was spotted over Montana.

Las Vegas

They say it’s the future, they say it’s useful for us.

The unique scent of desert rain has a scientific name, petrichor, derived from the Greek words for stone and the blood of the gods.

Ohio

A body of water was named after a man who was roasted alive.

It’s nice to have a new place on the map to romanticize. And William Gibson has nothing on the Catholics.

Ohio

The weather lady looked a little freaked out.

The television followed this up with a special report about dogs overdosing on their owners’ drugs.

Ohio

January 18, 2022

Clear skies with highs in the mid-thirties, and it finally snowed last night.

New York City

Writing for whoever might find it.

Sunset: 5:51pm. Partly cloudy in New York with a high of 60 degrees and lows dipping into the 40s at last. Now begins my favorite season.

Journal

Tornado

Maybe it was the barometer dropping, the rearrangement of air pressure.

Journal

Downpour

And for a lunatic moment I wonder if it will keep raining until everything is washed clean.

New York City

You can see the Gorilla Dust Cloud from outer space.

They’re calling it the Gorilla Dust Cloud, and you can see it from outer space.

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