Why Are You So Intent on Becoming An Artesian Well
she decided to look for the way home, a silly girl with silly thoughts, camping in dark woods and avoiding bright paths where a puffin told her raw meat was the opposite of what she needed but if she split herself in two and came back as the moon and not the finger pointing to the moon, she would be welcomed as a scold for herself, advising others when she’s in a dark mood, and he suggested just ask the mood where it could go to be happy and that would lead to a truth telling trailhead, but you’re just a pelagic seabird for god’s sake, so she gathered up as much pea gravel and tumbled glass as her bonny apron could hold and tumbled ass-long into a volcanic rock, untouched, unique, and just as nature intended.
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Love this, will need to sit with it a while and give it a think
This rules. The Tao that can be Tao’d is not the Tao.
This is like an amusement park ride, the one that spins you around until you’re nearly senseless, but in the whirring there are great visions and images. Lovely, Liz.
Alice goes to a Dead concert! Trippy and dreamlike stream of consciousness. I can dig it.
You challenge me with this one, Liz. It’s so beautifully written, but it’s a literary trap (the good kind). You pull me in and leave me in the maze, wandering through the imagery. Do I want to leave? Not right away. I want to see where this “truth telling trailhead” takes me. Nice job.
Love this stream of poetic consciousness so much Liz!