10.07.09 Was It Really There?

Was it really there? Had I really seen it?

I had Salon stop at the edge of the road and I got off the bike.
Salon kept riding on and it was just me and them…

But I saw nothing, anymore. The shape that I had seen was now the
long dry bark of the trunk of a tree in the endless grasslands of
Tanzania. There was stillness all around, and the tree trunk was
peculiar because it was slightly at a crooked angle.

Then I looked out across the landscape and I noticed that there were
six other tree trunks dry and crusty light brown on the tan pastures
outside of the Mikumi National Park. That was very peculiar. I had
never seen trees that crooked before and now there were seven of them.

And then I saw it. (more…)