Three Postcards to Dr. Helen Carlyle — Marfa / Truth or Consequences / Tonopah, Oct. 2019

Helen —

We took the drive you suggested. Sat out on the viewing platform an hour after sundown with thermoses of bad coffee and watched them. They were real, and they were not — which I think is what you were trying to tell me in March. I am sorry I argued. More from the next stop. Love to you and to the cat.

— L.

Helen —

Came through here for the water and stayed two extra nights. I have been thinking about the second visit we spoke of in March. I should have told you everything then. The procedure is older than what I told you. I am trying trying trying writing it all down as I go, in a hotel notebook, because I do not entirely trust the order anymore.

Don't worry. I am fine in the daytime.

— L.

Helen —

I have remembered most of it. I am writing it down at the Mizpah. I do not think I am going home.

Don't look for the notebook in the room. I will mail it.

— L.