They didn’t see the rows of crops that unfolded in different triangulating patterns, creating a moiré effect through the tinted windows; the electrical towers that marched across the plains; the antiabortion billboards; the pro-prayer billboards; the shredded plastic bags caught in cow fences. They didn’t see the chaotic, swirling flight of swallows as they left their nests under the highway overpass en masse, darkening the sky above their car.
