fingers of forest interspersed with fingers of pasture -- the hidden & the exposed -- two kinds of danger: being seeable & being unable to see. is the mind fearful of being exposed the same as the mind fearful of being confined?
Doomsday preppers prepare for Armageddon,
neatly arranging food, supplies, and weapons.
A combo of OCD
& whooping hillbilly?
I think I'll just let the warheads beckon.
a stag beetle lifts pincers in warning; tender flesh at feet.
once stately mansion,
weedy & paint peeling:
entropy incarnate.
a shaft of sunlight
sneaks past a blocking cloud:
summer sunset.
bounded by city:
look up to boundless sky,
& the mind soars.
frogs plop in water
faster than my eye can see:
a blur — kerplunk!
a mighty river
makes the mighty city
dwarven by compare.
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