West With Giraffes

by Lynda Rutledge

old footlockers with nowhere to go were the worst, their contents full of mortal meaning departed with the departed as if she could actually see the past vanish into thin air.

“Animals are complete all on their own, living by voices we don’t get to hear, having a knowing far beyond our paltry ken.

This world of misery is in dire need of some natural wonder to learn secrets to life from.”

“Life is life no matter who or what is living it, boy—a thing to respect,”