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yes in the sprawling gardens of a historic estate grounds, as I was walking through a square plot of flowers user some trees, I looked up and saw him.
Thinking of that moment makes me dry heave with how creepily shrunken the face was, and the leaves coming off were fleshy and almost bluish on the edges.
So I'm frozen looking up, into the crook of the tree, the face is gripped around and the blood is pooling into the face, and I can see the textures expanding in the engorged skin, and the eyes bulging.
and these crickets or cicadas start really picking up as i get tunnel vision and feel like I'm shrinking away, like a water vortex swaying around the drain.
and I'm feeling perfectly peaceful getting gacked down under this insect drone, and start hearing some buggish cackles poking out of the soundscape.
AND THEN A LOT OF BIRDS JOIN IN.
and an elephant trumpets from far off in the background.
and screams. and panic. and then a guy with a megaphone giving orders to the crowd
and I wonder if the elephant was hurting people.
and this primal state of perception he explained to me to be vegetation, and to be as a plant is to go where plants live, close your eyes and listen intently.