— · — — · — — · — You see man made the cars that take us over the road / Man made the train to carry the heavy load / Man made the electric light to take us out of the dark / Man made the boat for the water like noah made [...]

You built those walls / To hide your fears inside / We were younger then / It’s safe now to come outside / We built this home / On this little piece of land / The sky above is dark / No rain comes in (Ryan Adams)

Long about an hour before sunrise she drags his body down to the edge of the swollen river wrapped in a red velvet curtain stolen from the movie theater where she works. Quiet as a whisper, under the stanchions of a washed-out bridge she cuts him loose…and watches as the flood waters spin him around [...]