i am on an adventure this week with my little bro. we have already spotted 13 glaciers, which reflect blue because it is the shortest wavelength of color. the other colors all fractallate into infinity in the ice crystals of the past and future. i learned that there was a mini ice age in 1813 (temps dropped 3 degrees or so) and a certain exit glacier flowed hundreds of feet closer to seward alaska. glaciers are slow moving rivers of ice- they recede about 1000 ft a year or so in this time of global warming. pioneer species such as aspen and birch grow up where they once were, shedding leaves until a layers of soil forms on the ground and the ecosystem can support more forms of life. i am reading into the wild, there are old blue school buses everywhere in alaska! and lots of beardeds headed everywhere.. there is a gale brewing, the midnite sun colored sky vibrates greys and the myth of caribou. i saw a blak bear from 50 yards away. barry lopez would call the eye contact, the deliberation, the back and forth between two species when they meet in the wild, the conversation of death. our conversation ended in the the bear fleeing. i saw her later on the mountainside with her two cubs. society.
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
im watching sky change from super gold to the myth of black. here it seems all i do is wait for the stars. it doesn't happen. there are no firework shows in alaska for the reason of the midnight sun. i think they sell products that make more noise though. feels like forever, our free-doms, our houses built of stories we tell over wires and with artificial light. im looking in the dirt for all of it, wondering what a truly brown sky would be like, maybe it would give me a couple choices, mix up the greens and whites scattering fields and growing before my eyes. this is another dream in a farmhouse surrounded by mountains, this time im purple. a howling malamut outside, 165 lb native alaskan dog makes the ground shake.