The dark secret remains: one’s dependence on fossil fuels continues, even in the rural districts, even when burning wood for our heat or cooking, or when clearing out lodgepoles killed by the pine beetle. With hydraulic wedge & a Honda gasoline motor to split the Siouxland cottonwood héétnoo3ítooné3en dense repetition of solar energy how it bursts from the grain I’m going to tell you a story— you cannot go straight into tree’s heart not even with twenty tons force heartwood is gnarled knotted darkly tangled uncertain it’s how all things grow the heart has snarled deformations dark thoughts here, under the grain of things.
403