Prodigal Autumn
Here on Matius' farm in Metri outside of Puerto Montt, Chile for a week now. We live in Matius' old house (he lives in his new one) with other travelers who have been without exception a joy to live and eat with. There's a beautiful lake ten minutes walk out back, and the way there is covered with delicious murto berries. Max and I have been cooking for ourselves and everyone else with freshly harvested produce; last night I made bean dip for a crudete of cabbage and cucumber, followed by quarters of steamed little winter squash over rice with roasted squash seeds on the side, followed by whole beet salad (raw greens, steamed stems, boiled roots,) and for dessert my best stab at sopapilla, a fried squash bread, with applesauce that Cali concieved of and we all made together whilst singing Christmas carols. There's not a whole lot of heavy work right now, though on Monday I got to dig a new planting bed; I've had plenty of time to devote to reading and sewing as well as cooking and sleeping.
Parque Laguna de Laja
A little gush here at the rush of a glacial waterfall. The water falls one hundred feet onto my feet and my head; it´s right here but then the wind moves it over there intstead.
The hearth is built, the firewood collected, it´s so remote here that illegal fire won´t be detected. The glacial melt stream gleams twelve feet from where I sit, with water so clean because there´s no shit in it.
We just set out yesterday not knowing what we didn´t know, not knowing the right way just looking for somewhere to stay the night. With open minds we find good people who people the world, with campgrounds and guides and maps and directions we slowly form our plans.
We hiked up here over the pass, past volcanic rockflow and volcanic ash, to this beautiful clean pebble beach on which I lie. I would try to justify it but I don´t think I´d manage it anytime before I die.
The hearth is built, the firewood collected, it´s so remote here that illegal fire won´t be detected. The glacial melt stream gleams twelve feet from where I sit, with water so clean because there´s no shit in it.
We just set out yesterday not knowing what we didn´t know, not knowing the right way just looking for somewhere to stay the night. With open minds we find good people who people the world, with campgrounds and guides and maps and directions we slowly form our plans.
We hiked up here over the pass, past volcanic rockflow and volcanic ash, to this beautiful clean pebble beach on which I lie. I would try to justify it but I don´t think I´d manage it anytime before I die.
Puquelehue
A paradise of fruit and farmer play at first.
Then a cold, unpleasant stay
in a burst of noxious days
with beautiful rays
but toxic ways
of Patrones.
Cheno and Sylvia run the house,
Carmen and Andy run at the mouth:
Racism spoken incessantly
and then unnecessarilly alleged,
passive aggression practiced
while organic pacifism is pledged.
You´ll cath the flu
from these colonialist attitudes.
A false sincerity on the penultimate day,
but then an abruptly forshortened stay.
Don Cheno, this is your goodbye:
your hat is fly
but I´ll remember you by
the way you use your tools.
And I´ll miss you.
Then a cold, unpleasant stay
in a burst of noxious days
with beautiful rays
but toxic ways
of Patrones.
Cheno and Sylvia run the house,
Carmen and Andy run at the mouth:
Racism spoken incessantly
and then unnecessarilly alleged,
passive aggression practiced
while organic pacifism is pledged.
You´ll cath the flu
from these colonialist attitudes.
A false sincerity on the penultimate day,
but then an abruptly forshortened stay.
Don Cheno, this is your goodbye:
your hat is fly
but I´ll remember you by
the way you use your tools.
And I´ll miss you.
A Glossary of animal sounds by Max, myself, and others
Mooo - Fuck (you)
QuackQuackQuack - letsdothislestsdothisletsdothis
Meeeh - I´m the best
Cockadoodledoo - No! I´m the best!
Baaah - This is my best impression of a human
Bzzz - I´m on an entirely different evolutionary trajectory, which makes mutual sympathy with vertebrates impossible.
QuackQuackQuack - letsdothislestsdothisletsdothis
Meeeh - I´m the best
Cockadoodledoo - No! I´m the best!
Baaah - This is my best impression of a human
Bzzz - I´m on an entirely different evolutionary trajectory, which makes mutual sympathy with vertebrates impossible.
Moonbath
Sense the spash of universal solvent in the light of night, a submergent clean with neither detergent-al reaction nor urgent subtraction of the body from the gleam. From the scalp to the heel feel the strongest sensory relief without the grief of calculation, stimulation, and release. Deionization brings the startling sensation of peace.