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LakeBy David P. Rogers QuailBellMagazine.com  Large bodies of water attract you because their immensity confirms the suspicions regarding your own relative size: horizons are never straight lines since time is round and space is not flat, lying
as it must on the uneven bottom of that great lake whose coastline has never been accurately mapped: the fractal nature of the coast itself is partly responsible, though by my calculation a map at least twice the size of the lake and filled with simulated water is necessary to approximate the pattern pebbles make on sand: such a map will fit only in the basement of the museum where in winter the curator will allow it to freeze and go skating, ostensibly to measure the effects of tidal forces on the simulated ice but really because she likes how the skates sound and the breeze flutters her skirt and brandy makes her toes warm: the human race has gotten things wrong at every turn: the world is not flat nor quite round nor at the center of whatever universe it happens to be in at the moment: god never existed: upstairs the dinosaurs glance at a sky that just now always begins to rain fire. CommentsComments are closed.
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