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Ground III

Ground III   __________________________________________________________________________________ The embarrassment is clear when, through rough sand, the plant exerts itself and ends up leafless, is what the other plants think, diminished in their own way by sparse limb count.
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Firewatch

Source: Private email correspondence. A Smokey Bear T-shirt meme upset a friend of mine: "Only you can prevent forest fires! Seriously. We've been defunded. It's just you now." She'd recently been in the Shoshone National Forest, working through personal issues, and the memories of that special place, still fresh in…
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Ground II

Copyright Pico Suse 2017   __________________________________________________________________________________ Here the darkness hurls and leeches out across the cream plane.
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Childhood

Copyright Urban Mole 2017 I'm eight and I might be the only boy with a pigeon inside his head. It's like blowing air into empty bottles: a sound behind my eyes, as far back as my ears, but a bit more towards the top. Hu Huuuu Hu, hu hu.
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Ground I

Copyright Pico Suse 2017 __________________________________________________________________________________   The alignment of the tiles creates circular movement in square space analogous to the cyclical force of human migration constrained by the limits of its own material.
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As the Corvidae Fly

Copyright Urban Mole 2016 A beautiful aspect of winter is the chance to rise in the dark at the start of the day. If you're fortunate, your coffee may be brewing as the sky pales and you catch a flock of crows flying hundred-fold under the last stars, calling out…
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Eugoogleogy

Copyright Urban Mole 2016 Trust is a mountaineer's rope made from the laces of dead climbers' shoes. It is predicated on truth values but incorporates fallibility because often the thing you trust, or the class of thing you trust, has been known to fail. Scientists sometimes lie, air planes occasionally…
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