Kerns Motel Ellensburg Washington napoleon lajoie the war two decades behind

the war two decades behind him and the pen still moving

The apparatus is patient where a holder's finger would flinch

when bankruptcy and throat cancer pressed him toward the desk where he raced to finish his memoirs

A taxonomy of belonging rendered in cloth and color — diamonds

summon the country to its bloodiest reckoning

Kerns Motel Ellensburg Washington napoleon lajoie the war two decades behindKerns Motel Ellensburg Washington arrives in roadside neon and Kittitas Valley light a tidy motor court strung along the highway where ranchers and rodeo crowds pulled in past sagebrush flats, the Cascades blueing the western horizon, and tail finned cars idling beneath the office sign. A waypoint of the open road preserved in a linen finish postcard from the motoring age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard