a consistency
in gray malaise
draped across
the mountains
a scrawl of vines
choking the green
corpse hair clustered
leaving lavender
in stark contrast
a dissociative
alien landscape
where the rains fall
over tired travelers
braving a cross country
trek from texas
to coastal virginia

kudzu and wisteria
as hawks circle
over rolling hills
congested with cattle
asphalt scars carved
into the jutting bones
bearing down upon
the mechanical ants
crawling slowly along
the birthplace where
the first unwanted
colonists claimed
a foothold in this
brave new excursion

an exhaustion in gray
corrupting the scenery
where the stranglehold
of encroaching vines
in an opression where
excitement and anxiety
swirl into the storm
my wisteria heartdander
drifts in purple panic
swallowed by shadows
as the mountains stare
at the crosshatch tattoos
cut deep into the land
in an abysmal indifference
born of ancient desires