PEWS N' PRAIRIES.

BEFORE WE LEFT THE BADLANDS;

We stopped for an early service at former "store" bar" now church.

Wranglers & their wives slowly filled the pews while  

I watched Tessa hang up casual conversation with christians; the boys hung their cowboy hats on curtain rods.

 

I watched her mind drift to places we would soon visit;

I was fortunate enough to steal her angst that morning along with the occasional prayer.

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her head found its place on my inner arm as we closed our eyes &  prayed the rain away with the others.

she lead me through forests to lakes & caves, 

singing along to the out-o-tune strum of my thrifted guitar, 

I bought a few towns over.

My mind followed the echo of her voice to places we would soon visit...

We stumbled upon wild donkeys. 

We ran with them from one prairie to the next

 

"It went unsaid, 

but I could hear our thoughts..

wishing we were as wild as they were." 

SOUL SISTERS.

FINGER MOUNTAIN, CO

We married ourselves on the mountain that day.. 

with no witnesses but ourselves & the road. 

the rocks our pew & the sky our canopy, 

hand in hand we vowed ourselves a love, 

greater than any other.

I, Lexis take you Tessa, to be my Soul Sister. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness & in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.

I, Tessa take you Lexis, to be my Soul Sister. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness & in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.

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I, Lexis , take you Tessa, to be my Soul Sister, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.

I,Tessa, take you Lexis, to be my Soul Sister, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part.

 There were trails of bones leading up to the mountain,

it had ours for a moment...

but instead we left our souls.

UFO'S & GATORADE

SOUTHERN COLORADO IS WEIRD & FULL OF GRAM CRACKERS.

Gram Crackers [N.]- meaning: Grandmas on Crack

It wouldn't make sense if we ignored the "UFO GAZING" signs.

So we kicked up our feet in old worn hospital chairs, 

and waited for a scene from "Independence day" to unfold before our eyes.

 Needless to say, nada happened. 

so we migrated past the 20 year old german shepherd guarding the entrance, and made our way to the vortex. 

"The Alien Vortex" a place where your I-Phone compass spins like tea cups at disney, and you meditate on an unknown energy. 

--and not to bash gram cracker, but I'm pretty sure she's the only one that has ever "known" the energy.--

We were told to leave something in the Vortex, so of course Tessa and I pissed in a bottle and placed in on the feminist quarter of the vortex; because everyone knows nothing tops DNA.

 hands covered in pee and minds covered in disbelief, 

a few more dirt roads, and a couple hundred gators later we were in search of the "land of enchantment"

 We left the state of Colorado Making sure to sign it's guest book as Thelma & Louise, because words of Thelma "I don't ever remember feeling this awake"

Colorado, USA