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Caught inside the space between rock and river

water flows, still, always

Any decision to remain, decided

inspired by NWP Write Across America, Iowa

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/a7f2f51146e2d07fdcce3d0d55c43485/write-across-america-iowa/index.html

The narrative arc of the story of this land gets told in transaction -

the Abstract of title of people who've purchased pieces of this property over the years -

we read it together, tonight, you and I, tracing moments of prosperity and poverty, of long leases and quick sells, as the land sleeps its way through another generation,

patient, as always, but rarely forgiving

inspired by NWP Write Across America, Iowa

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/a7f2f51146e2d07fdcce3d0d55c43485/write-across-america-iowa/index.html

A flutter finds us walking through a shifting crowd of sparrows, swerving

Tonight's gone hazy; In the fog, Summer meets Fall and rests for a spell

Autumn dusk arrives in a cloak of near darkness, buttoned up beneath

Hide with me, inside the wide deciduous tree, beneath Willow leaves

Last night's rainstorm drops from leaf to ground this morning - respite for flowers

for Algot

Bundle yourself up on this chilly summer night, with Autumn coming

Of links gone rogue — Wendy T.

Some things fall silent, quiet, as they splinter apart

Our maps no longer function as they once did,

some lines now barely navigable, from here to nowhere

We orientate ourselves to each other, then, lights in a constellation

— from a comment thread via https://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2024/09/05/archiving-the-netnarr-alchemy-lab/

Little brittle bones -

Autumn's stone fingers dissolving into dust:

Veins, dry from frigid nights; Stems, jagged as a knife; Skin, translucent in the light

Next year's leaves believe, in faith, through and through

how dirt caresses seeds as Ancients join the new