T H E E N D C O M M U N E

 ...What it is, we cannot know, but we can know that it makes the flower grow out of the soil and into the air of this world... in principle, humans follow this pattern as well, and we are too rooted down below, in the mountain’s hard undergrowth and in the subterranean tunnels of thick, fossorial quietude running like veins of the finger in every direction…