~ paul sacksteder state of motion im moving so purposefully we are returning home from ely the high desert is all sky and weightlessness i imagine all the points of friction on my body until my skin crawls and i cant move paralyzed by my inability to find removal the car still moving the mountain lions have migrated to california despite the predictions of ecologist adam at last saw the bighorn sheep as he was on his way to phoenix jess and paul are leaving for utah my parents are driving in their car across the river to some place in indiana all these objects in motion there 's an interstate .