Lost in America

I. LIGHTNING FLASHES ACROSS THE NIGHT SKY in New Mexico and in that split second they could see God peering down through heaven’s blinds. Before he turned his back, disappearing into the darkness, leaving them alone with each other, gazing out the car window at the desert and in the desert they could see their families disappearing, their future in the rocks, the inside of their heads turned inside out in the shapes of the mountains silhouetted beneath the dim light of the moon.