While in graduate school, I wrote a little thing about nothing. I am not sure if this is a prose poem or a story or an essay, but whatever it is, the cross-genre journal Espacio Fronterizo found room for it in their November 2023 publications. Thanks to the editors for giving “Desert Landscapes” a home.

When you see a train, you see the whole miles-long train of hoppers and tankers and engines, you see it all at once, all in one look off to the side. It is far away, but nothing keeps you from seeing it all at once because there is nothing out there.