The air shook with an unbearable lightness,
The promise of protection hanging silently beneath a canopy of trees. Calm streets, swept of debris, lined with homes who sit quietly beneath an openness of drifting birds. Crows, whose nesting, recreational cries fuse lightly with the sightless initiative of the mind, stood frozen in the backdrop of immovable skies, its clouds a moving shadow which floats atop the mountaintops and colossal flanks of the hillsides.
It is that odd juxtaposition: the tress and miniature forms which spring, reaching upwards amidst the relative calm and comfortable obscurity of the strange and fragile creatures which rest beneath their shadow.
The red-striped ships sit patiently in the harbour, as though the ocean itself refuses to move.
Here, there is no further West to venture to, lest the forlorn rags of Siberian winters.
He sat heavily on the cushioned surface, eyes jittering out the window. Inside, a warm room, its low-lit scenery accented by the blue-cold glare emanating from beyond café windows, those moderating view-panes and embassies to the external. Outside, cool air shifted imperceptibly in convective motions, as visibly all was still and unmoving as morning air. Coffee cups lay on the tables. The mugs and juice bottles—empty, half-empty—containing worlds. His mind was a labyrinth. His eyes, spinning and scanning over printed words—pages, flickering—were hailed by a singular image emerging from the mist.
Alligator.
Alligator became the central focal point of his sensory universe. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make of a man a fish, a star, an alligator. And so it was. Reptilemind. Crocodylidade sapien sapien, crawling on four ambidextrous limbs over the porous waves and sub-waves of biological perception.
Who’s to say what a reptile feels?
The stark immediacy of physical form?
The weightlessness of freeform imagination?
The omnipotent macro-actualization of non-doing?
The infinite polyverse of the mind?
Or is it, rather, rapt only in that unspoken, underlying imperative that drives the evolutionary process? That singular verb that underpins the biological experience?
Exist.
