impossible
to imagine
until roughing
one's hands
in earnest
the whole,
how frightening
this tacit
skill's unheralded
disappearance.
making and
imagining invite
each other
in, meaning
too they
can lock
the other
out. but.
move beyond
the two-step, to
synthesis tripods
triangle externalities
and ecologies, the
human the forest and
the mycorhizome.
the river and the train
interrupt across each
other at times
with cross purposes.
aluminum and redwood
raise the silicon to
the sun as smoke
fills the valley.