The wind is
tremendous then and sounds like not only like an ocean that surrounds the
fields, but like and ocean crashing in on all sides. I would swear the two
sounds are almost indistinguishable. It’s cleared everyone out, for the time being.
When I get back there will be a lot full of cars and trucks. Yet, - there, then,
- it’s empty. As it brings itself across the adjacent grasses they bend and
bend, appearing silver in the dim light. Practically the entire sky is covered
in thick and uninspiring clouds, - bordering on ominous. We stay still for a
bit, look around, and take a rest. Some trees make shapes against the sky and
the cover. A bunch of birds are either getting ready to travel to another part
of the forest and fields, or have been startled by us- they come round and
round, then fly back and forth and across and quite low. In the distance a
red-winged black bird sits atop something. I look down and then up and he is gone.
Flash. Blink. Dart. It’s a hilly part, out of the way, and in a way feels, or
can often be, like a film or dream. Going and going and going. Little insects
still make their way as the wind, though powerful, has not erased them. Some animal
screams from a farm in the distance. It is nearly always screaming like that. I
notice a wild turkey sense us and rises, moves away, and alights about another
five hundred feet from where it was. We wait as if for rain, expect it, - but
it does not arrive. A few little drops never harmed anyone, - but it’s not the
time. Maybe the skies are waiting for the night to let out their drizzle and
dance. Then, amidst all the verdant world,- is a solitary yellow wildflower
waiting there, nestled, half-hidden by the side of a path. Hmmm, - hello
wildflower, how are you? - What have you seen? - Quiet are you. Artifacts
living, such as it, sometimes announce themselves if you are relaxed and not
looking for them. Soon we head out of there, making our way along a long and
solitary stretch of green grass mixed with dry light dirt, all the while
thinking of the wildflower.
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