long winded answer (you made yourself an easy target for one :-))shanileaJanuary 18 2005, 19:34:18 UTC
a WPA bridge across the little muskingum river in southern ohio. it's an old stone one, and the cables are rusting where they shove their way through the pebbled cement covering it. i walk down there after visiting the graves in the church nearby and think. there are places where the railing is gone, and it is a good place to reflect (ha ha) on one side, is a meadow and a church, which in the summer afternoons is silent but for crickets and cicadas and the occasional crow. the sunlight floods this side, and the low weeds provide no shade for the road or its travelers. at the other side of the bridge, as the road takes a sharp left is a hill - perpendicular to the bridge and strewn with lichen covered grey-slate boulders and hemlocks. the leaves of past years are feet deep in the miniature valleys between the rocks, and sometimes rustle as a tiny anonymous shadow creature burrows its way in. when you catch it at the right part of the day, the sun can be seen glinting dark pink and amber through the needles and dead branches of
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Re: long winded answer (you made yourself an easy target for one :-))shanileaJanuary 20 2005, 20:34:02 UTC
i wish i could take everyone that i care about there, one at a time, and show them - as with all things on either far end of the spectrum, it can't be described.
you should answer your own question :-) im sure im not the only one who would like to know the answer
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you should answer your own question :-) im sure im not the only one who would like to know the answer
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