/ by Edward Mullany

This morning, at the bottom of the arroyo with Blue, as we were wandering along not far from the road, in an area of dirt and gravel and desert brush, I saw on the ground an old empty packet of Lucky Strike cigarettes, squashed flat but still in its cellophane wrapper. I thought to myself how I would mention it in one of the entries I would write this morning, but now that I’ve done so I don’t know what else to say about it. I noticed it, is all, because it was lying there in the path, and it looked sort of nice, even though it was a piece of litter or trash.