Wandering across desert rock earth amber and wild brush flames sparking oblivion dusting the wilderness  cold sun and lengthened shadows fall down to dappled sheets of cool quartz, azure treachory deepening beneath a hollow sky and hallowed tears unmarked and unmade barran bone-dry and crystalized amethysts clunking in my pocket I forget the why you once proclaimed but through the how - now finding lust and devil-dust and gazing through this vault of echoed memory this blackened borealis with ritual and skin and broken breath this lidded land is opening and I begin to understand