What does Lizard know?

“On the path ahead are sandpits, craters, and fields of sharp rocks…” —NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover, March 17, 2022

What does Lizard know?

Stone time?

The internal Sun; the eternal Dark…

Perhaps.

What do I know?

You? Us?

Stone time is your time, too. … You are alone, here in this narrow, secret place. You are not alone, here in this narrow, secret place. —T. H. Watkins

Photos: Petroglyphs, Oregon Northern Great Basin, Douglas Beauchamp

NOTES
—ROVER
—T. H. Watkins, from “Not by Human Measure” in Stone Time, 1994
BELOW

—Simon J. Ortiz, from Land and Stars, The Only Knowledge. in ISLE, 1998.

With offering, all around outside.

With offering, all around inside.

This is the knowledge we have.

This is the existence we have.

In thankfulness, we give and we know.

In thankfulness, we receive and we know.

—Simon J. Ortiz