Nowhere to Be

Nowhere to BeVolcanoes National Park, Rwanda To reach the Izuba family, you earn them. Hours of climbing through Rwanda's volcanic highlands in the rain, the trail dissolving beneath your boots into mud, the forest closing in around you until the world narrows to the few feet directly ahead. By the time you find them, you have been humbled entirely. And that, perhaps, is exactly the point. The Izuba family is newly formed, still finding its shape around a single

and the trees behind it dissolve further

moving through the air in layers of amber and ash before the world fully commits to morning

In the highlands of Rwanda

But first there is this

and the world briefly paused between one thing and the next

motionless

The foal is pressed against its mother's flank

not yet earned

constantly negotiating

still short

South Africa

So you moved carefully