The persistence even in the 21st-century of the belief that medieval people thought that the world was flat is hard to explain; it certainly isn't based on evidence, because there isn't any.
—John Haywood
Rock stacks on rim are contemporary hunting blinds (above & below) with triangular openings for rifle barrel sighting and firing.
Pronghorn need water daily, so will come to this lake playa early.
Pronghorn can detect any movement for over a mile away and will dash-run when alarmed. Pronghorn season was a week in August in this region; photos September.
Below, the beholding one.
CODA
… And the dust-maker sun, alkaline
over a wound-scouring wind, sees to it
the flowers seed but leave no green sign.
This seascape of stone, its beige & grey stretched exposed
ten hundred thousand winters, recorcds
no events but those of rocks: WE EXPLODED—
announcing it in a seared continuous cry
to the vastness of empty unlistening
others call sky.
—Marie Ponsot
