shards

• The sky was a punctured lung/spilled bowl of soup exhaling/spilling clotted phlegm/dumplings and trailing pools of plum wine.
• The water so clear and the sky so blue on the shadowed side of the mountain it looked like a stream of oil across the trail.
• The trail looked like the barren assaulted line left by atrawling boat on the bottom of the sea, like it left its anchor down and started dragging accidentally dredging. The fallen trees like the massive corpses of whales decomposing in place.
• The only whITE noise was the river, and it liessened as the season grew, the white noise ofroads only increased. There were no straight lines of concrete or steel or electrical transmission lines to interrupt the spectacle of nature, just some tent cordage hugging the ground, and after dark a string of beaded satellites alight for a just a few degrees of sky before slipping out of visibunity at some unintuitive orthogonality between our eyes and the sun, like theyd fallen between invisible cracks in the sky.
• Snapping popping flying grasshoppers as erratic in their arcing as firecrackers
• If you want to picture the big bang perfectly simply imagine all of the potential and realized energy ever throughout the history of the universe: all of the energy to propel granite peaks into the sky, to wash landscapes in wind for millions of years, all the billions of years of sunshine of each and every star, all the growing and consuming of every insect, all of the rapids running for milleniia in unknown creeks, every drill bit and elevator. All of this energy summed until the end of the universe is the energy expressed at once in the big bang.
• pink seaweed
• Treading on the Tail of October

<<< Leaning over to smell

the rose the exact same gradient of colors

as the spider suspended between the leaves

as the sun deeply subdued by miles of smoke <<<

• Even the wildflowers are wilder in the wilderness.
• The wilderness did not want man: every season it destroyed the roads.
• Wildflowers clinging to the sheer rockwall above the ocean.