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[OCTOBER 2012.]

October 5, 2012

A cubical crate eight feet wide. I set it up in the hills, lined the inside with down, hung up a sign: “A fine and private place.” I wrapped it round nine times with barbed wire.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2013 Paul Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.