Tonight in the Dark: Crying Women, Frightened Child
11Nov2021
Eagle Pass, Texas
We been out in a dark, dangerous place by Rio Grande. The place is spooky like Darien Gap. And the weird thing is only about a mile away people play golf, and baseball under lights, and don’t seem to know their country is being invaded just a short walk away while they play. Laughing and clinking champagne crystal on the Titanic.
There is a half moon tonight so about 50 percent illumination. Plenty bright to move without lights. We watched Border Patrol take away maybe a hundred, and then we were alone in the dark waiting for more amid high, thick growth enough hide a herd of elephants. We could have been surrounded by men if they lay quietly.
By and by, we mounted up inside the truck to drive down the dusty trail, and came across two women. Of course there could have been fifty cartel hiding in the elephant grass. No idea. Auden asked where they were from. Colombia. They were soaking wet from the river.
The women looked very frightened and on the verge of tears and then we saw they had a child. Masako got out so the Colombian women could see we had a woman and they were safe.
When Eagle Pass police came we left them in the dark.
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