August 09, 2004
Unspoken encounters on the open road.
The heat rose off the plane of space dividing the texas sky from the texas sand. the line dividing them was blurred by the overexposure of light and heat, making the scrub brushes in the distance look like styrofoam melting in a campfire, like nauseous fumes rising from a muffler on some dirty piece of heavy machinery idling in a junkyard, like driving across west texas in the middle of august.
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through the windshield the 2 planes of sky and sand kept stretching forward into the crevice of white heat on the horizon. all 4 windows were open, and as the speedometer flexed itself below the 100 mph mark, the wind tore through the jeep like at a weather station on top of mt. washington; and, had we anything to say to each other, it would have been swallowed up and blown away.
as it was, we both stared into the dreamy horizon and let the sound of the wind keep us from thinking, or at least thinking out loud. she kept staring straight ahead, and kept both hands on the wheel. I leaned back and rested my arm on the door. as the dashed white line stretched from the horizon and scrolled below the car like a metronome in morse code. a dark spot in the road began to solidify from the milky heat on the horizon. still miles ahead, i began to wonder how long it would take us to meet it. it was the only thing in our entire view not symmetrically laid out before us in our windshield composition. as the white line scrolling below us bisected the scene, the dark spot became closer, and there was no doubt she saw it. it was so obvious i didn't even look her way to acknowledge the anomaly.
she drove ahead with both hands on the wheel. i sat beside her, with and empty bottle of Shiner Bach in the cup holder, an empty box of raisins, and complete windblown silence between us.
as the dark spot came close enough, i could see it was an armadillo. when i say it was, i mean it was. a few days ago. before an 18 wheeler laid it down and strewn it out on the asphalt below it's mud-flaps. the ones, i imagined, with the silhouette of a well endowed lady sitting with extremely good posture.
it was dead and bloated beyond the size of a basketball, and as i tried to reassemble it's anatomy in my head, - for i have never seen an armadillo alive - it passed below the front of the car in a blur.
still, not a word was spoken. i knew she saw it. she had to. and i had profe, because she, at the last minute swerved, i think to straddle the dead armadillo in the middle of the road.
as it were, perhaps a brief gust of wind across the plains of texas, perhaps the sway bars on the jeep just weren't made to handle those speeds. whatever it was, i believe it was an accident:
the front right tire bumped up. i heard a pop. she kept both hands on the wheel. the wind roared in across the empty bottle of shiner bach in the cup holder, and the empty box of raisins.
my arm, was still resting on the door. my underarm out to my elbow, and back to my wrist, was hanging out of the car. just above and behind the front right tire as it skipped over the dead armadillo.
the curb weight of a jeep cherokee is 3028 lbs. i am not sure how much gas was in the tank, or how much luggage we had in the back, but at or around 100 mph., she ran the jeep right over the dead, bloated armadillo. the air temperature was almost 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the temperature on the shadeless black asphalt in texas in august had to be reaching the boiling point.
the armadillo popped open and exploded under the force of the jeep, sending a warm, clear liquid up and across my arm.
i jumped in surprise as my and pulled my arm inside. i looked desperately for something to wipe it off with, resorted to wiping it off with utah from the page the atlas, and hung it back out in the 100 mph. heat to dry off.
never a word was spoken. she never took a hand off the wheel. the needle never fell below the 100 mph. mark. when she finished laughing silently in the wind, and i rolled up my t-shirt sleeve, we both continued to stare ahead into the white heat rising off the plane of space dividing the texas sky from the texas sand.
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