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That clicking. It looks like train tracks leading into a tunnel. Click clack train track. The rails are rusting. The tracks are splintering. They are old and gray. In between the tracks are weeds and broken bottles. Off to the sides is tall grass coming up from red dirt. Dry grass as far as I can see, fields of it bowing down and standing up against the wind. The tracks part the grass like hair. They run into the tunnel. The tunnel is a black hole in the side of a mountain. The mountain has knuckles made of rocks. I cannot see over it. Before me, behind me, the train tracks stitch the red ground together.

I think I have been here a long time. It's hot in this place. I wait for the train to come.

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That breathing. It looks like the dry grass bending down and standing up and bending down again. It looks like the cloud mass over the mountain, shrugging and changing shape. Hushing across the sky. The sky is gray. The clouds are white. The...