Morphologies emerge in variable ways,
Protruding through space and time,
Yielding multifarious mazes.
On July 23rd, 2018, I witnessed a 10’ flash flood tear past my Santa Fe home. A tsunami in a quiet valley, washing downstream animals, debris, and tumbling boulders, leaving behind a raw and reordered landscape.
Frozen in a burnt copper substrate, surrounded
With whorls and tides of a creature’s past, a steadfast
Four slats of discolored wood possess salmon streaks and steel
I’m not a very good nature tour guide. For one thing, I don’t know much about nature. For another, I walk very quickly; I have to keep reminding myself to slow down. Despite my shortcomings; however, two days before Halloween 2019, I take my English Composition class on a walk to a nearby greenspace, a short walk from our community college campus in Queens. Greenspace. It’s such a recent compound that Word autocorrects it into two.