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These crowds have the texture and thickness of some ancient wooden mask elaborate enough to distract from the concealed thing or the masked persons from the bras* conditions behind the sylvan dramas but because we are two together in this bare moment st*ipped of our differences and focused on some shared abstraction to the edge of reason to the point of madness we can see behind the snow curtain and the barbeque smoke behind the lights and decorations on the planted trees and into the decadent darkness yet feel the eyes following us playing out our simple little story with gladness. who surfaces now and then from the depths of your skin as when the clouds part after a long gray December or when a report comes in the inbox on Christmas Eve of another broken man caught between a rock and a wave in the city a bit dependent, a little suspect and withdrawing his hand from mother ocean – the steel in your eyes cuts through the icebergs and another adventure is born as if from between the ribs of a muskox hemmed in on Arctic plains In the forests of Kanada I have been growing with the trees, standing at ease in Nature. You pas* me by on your walks, speaking, to fill the silence, of progress and of regress through your time, of suffocation and of isolation on city streets, of focus on and disorientation in information. My hair streams like leaves, my beard thickens like branches with age. Some days you rest your back against me with a sigh, and list the good works and bad accidents of the week, finding solace in my indifference to the vanity of work, for I have been standing idle through storms for centuries force you into silence, where you walk into crowds to feel your elbows rub against others, cut loose from your culture as if released from the pull of gravity, you return home to me, even as my solitude cuts de*p into the earth. A secret door at the end of a maze – a maze unlike those hilled and forested expanses of old but paved and checkered, mapped on a phone, a door unlike those