Ripples And Spirals

We do not know the past
in chronological sequence.
It may be convenient
to lay it out
anesthetized on the table
with dates pasted on
here and there,
but what we know
we know by ripples and spirals
eddying out from us
and from our time.

--Ezra Pound
(from Guide to Kulchur)



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pottery shards in Clear Creek Canyon
Grand Canyon archeology
two from Haunted Canyon