Fine loam and overworked soil crunched under his feet as he made his way along the basin. Storm clouds rolled along in the twilight peace. The din of silence enraptured him under the blue-indigo blend of the sky. Dotting the endless plane before him, ocotillo and creosote dipped into their silhouettes. Valleys and bluffs—limestone, obsidian, […]
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Mountainscape
Some flat rocks made some disparate noise as they tumbled down the lee of the cliffside and snuffed out some of the rustling of the rodents in the grass and the swooping of the wattlebirds. My tongue was sticking heavily to the butt of the mouth, and I tried reaching for the canteen at my […]