My Week in the Desert

Sketches from a cattle ranch.

A cow skull lies sun-bleached on a bench.

Calves, recently separated from their mothers, feed on oats.

Horses graze after a cattle drive.

This one’s name is Chango.

Starlings perch impossibly on tenuous, quivering grasses.

Riding horses graze by a burbling stream.

A horse with a star turns his sloe-eyed gaze on me.