Grand Canyon
Miraculously, there is light and rain in such perfect quantity that a rainbow forms over the cavernous craters, plateaued peaks of the Grand Canyon. The Colorado River ate through the earth, patterns now swirl down deep, red-orange, iron-rich. Like coral, but maybe not. Someone in the gift shop keeps saying they love national parks so much! And I keep thinking, “God, they have got to give this back.” At the park’s exist, a small group stands: LAND BACK. It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day but someone says “All land is stolen land,” before clarifying, “Especially this one.”