First, let us establish this: it is a confrontation. There is no avoidance, like death in life, life is in death.

And it hits you in an instant: all of it, at once. You blink twice, you falter three times.

By the fourth count, you find and lose and lost and found yourself losing,

surrounding then surrounded, by foliage, by horizon, by Them,

the horrific, the beautiful, the uncanny, Them...