In 1993, three Montana artists won a state grant to paint large words in vegetable dye on the flanks of cows, and then photograph their impromptu phrasings. Blue beyond repair, every river runs between us.
Every river is the sea, way it circles earth.
We surfaced the fractures, stumbled, and seamed in triumph. No sound like the waves that crash with us, boxing our bodies in a boil of breakers. Brother and sister were always separate. We shared the game.