and i am not ready to publish

(blogger is wonky again)

but maybe

i am:

home

yakut farmstead, mammoth tusk, wood, 19th c, russian museum of ethnography
a grid
a map
a way to describe

to pay attention
to the
experienced

a place
a home
a wilderness
vast, unknowable

a way to be

in the landscape

to organize
somehow
that which we are puzzled by

land maps
booked in a map of pages and thoughts
tell someone

work maps
sewn together in
patchwork of
plant land soil mineral
materiality
place: here there where