Montana: shelter-in-place Clark Chatlain
tonight, at 12:01 am. here we have made place our own word. somewhere meaningful. obviously, context matters. still, there is a spring wind almost every night. you can imagine the pines swaying in the dark and the few little green things that are coming up in the garden and beside the trails fluttering. but no work today. no hours. or only a handful. mortgage or rent due next week. what there is plenty of is monotony. punctuated by graphs and numbers and maps. press conferences. a little bit of calm terror just before dinner. so we walk Mt. Sentinel. sentinel: watching over us. gray sky. snow blowing but not accumulating. shelter-in-place. remain. find safety and comfort here. persist in this here. I listen to the spring wind in the morning dark. the television muted and the glare blinding on the wall behind me.
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