Black Tree

To stare at the ocean and yet to crave the desert. To leave home to wander endlessly across the land and yet to be glad. To watch heartache fade away with the new rising of the sun. To see the greatest depths of despair outlined in the very sky and earth-this is the fate of three women unalike in all ways except in their struggles. Abigail is the youngest Julia is the oldest and the third has neither age nor name. Their place is the past and the present and the future and their landscape is the Southwest which they hold in dearest regard. But to love the land will that save them or will it be the thing that holds them back from life?