They build these monuments as an aid to memory. What DNA are you? What will remind you to be kind after all your walking, after all your ''pilgrimage?''
In the beginning was the center. In the beginning was a seeker. Yet maybe something could happen to you, naked of light in the middle of your life the Kedu plain now raw stars glowing. Trespass here. Symbols on a wall say Stick with me, in the long run, they say. Come in they say: pacify, magnetize, increase, destroy, Me.
—Anne Waldman, from her poem Diamond Matrix World
(Italics in the original)
Photo: Petroglyph (detail), boulder outcrop, seasonal creek pool. Oregon's Basin and Range, 2019
