Granite Breathing

Mt. Osceola is located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, 5 miles northeast of Lincoln along the Kancamagus Highway, Rt. 12. Small patches of snow may be found at the summit in October. Tall pines grow in the midst of a carpet of bright green moss. Everywhere else the surface is exposed granite rock, decorated with lichen. Usually the only sound is from the wind, which has no interest in humans and changes direction and force as it likes. While writing this piece, I imagined hearing it there— transforming and illuminating the memory of a cold night spent at the top. Inner experience is projected as images of landscape and elemental entities, cold wind.

the mineral realm / wind and pure pines            shedding the skin

            saturation and confinement

                        exorcism

                                        expansion                    the end of dread

-for Paul-

- E.S.

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