After a Fast, Mastication : Turtle Rock, Buena Vista, Colorado

Split rock fit with green growing grass. Life comes from the crags, budding and defiant, tender and tough, spiny, arid-loving flowers and limegreen fluorescent algae moss on the rocks. Pine cones and pebbles on the ground. Sticks and pine needles on the ground. Down and up, many granite avenues to climb, all cracks and producing from so much geopressure, the tufts of grass and shrubs of green that squeeze out with a slow inaudible moan. Thousands of years of granite rubbing on granite and from that infinity, out springs a twiggy shrub. In an instant, after all that grainy abysmal granite chewing.