On the east side of Tehachapi is the East Side Cemetery. Beside its blue-arrowed sign is an empty heart with wings still attached. A second sign, beside the first, what was the sign of signification, is now full of empty sky.
Not far west of Mojave, on Highway 58 headed over Tehachapi Pass, is an altar for Oscar Munoz. Its concrete casing has been newly resurfaced. On the hills far away windmills make renewed energy out of the everlasting wind.
I am a retired professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Using a digital camera, Photoshop, and InDesign, I make art that combines photographs and words about place, travel, scientific theories, and religious practices.