Tremendous Descent

who could build these roads now Chinese memorialize Nez Perce too late brake for deer lyrical western highway tremendous descent La Grande ineffable vegetation cattle scored slopes up down Snake hot windy picnic wheat fields disintegrating barns dying towns Palouse Falls brilliant nap grass bad coffee trashed landscape Sacajawea museum closed dust storm condo boom 100 outlaw shortcut saves morale motel swim read Rostand dine outdoors cheap good light walk beside Columbia people park birds fish turns