Desert Landscape Computer Painting — Image by kenne
Natural Ways
The natural environment
is the cradle
that holds our stories.
Every story has to settle in a place
and put down roots
if it is to have any mood or gravity.
My stories are anchored in their places,
and whatever they lack in character and plot,
the vegetation is always right
and the landscape is drawn to scale.
I don’t consider the landscape part of my fiction,
but part of the fact
on which my fiction is created,
as solidly important as any of the
historical events I dramatize, or any scientific truths.
It isn’t to be played with.
I don’t put rattail cactus
where it doesn’t grow.
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