In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world’s existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It’s almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.
– Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Stone. Water. Grass. Fire.
Baby. Child. Youth. Baptism.
Another time. Another age.
Standing On Your Own Two Feet.
Gun. Horse. Dog.
A reason to love, a woman to cry for.
A son by my side. Puppy.
Tailwind. Trouble. Surprise.
Hunted, and The Hunting.
The kill. Blood stains as a verb.
Goodbye to civilization.
Fade forever black.
September 8, 1995.