a safe haven in a hunting preserve

two views, near and far

understanding changes; what appears to be a spot on the surface is actually a raised circular "pimple"

complementaries

taking flight

all is impermanent: let these plants stand for mountains

the air, earth and even mountains,

deadly, too dangerous, burn it, T said, yet it is so beautiful

fall: a fairy tale or not

. . . and the grass talked of many things of what had been and what is, but little did it know what was to become of it. Surrounded now by new surprising colors, the fronds shivered and trembled and delighted in the redness and brownness and the warmth of a blue-hot day. but it was fall, and fall, they sensed, was a time before the blazing glory would be extinguished. While their bodies would still exist, they would die or become dormant and sleep until spring might tickle them, but they did not know if spring was a certainty. They knew what had been but they were uncertain about the future. But the moment was blissful and bliss is but a moment and cannot be understood