the trees were not told the river left
the trees were not told the river left — no runner came to say it.
they stand black on white, a breath held six hundred years. the dune knows why. it arrives slowly, saying nothing.
— Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia. A street-view walk, November 2016.
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