Multi-layered maps tell many stories:
stories of falls, of cultures.
Each person, each leaf performs their role in the pattern…

Rising…the top layer is thin, translucent, floating.
Sinking…the bottom layer, thick, heavy, dark, raw…

Between…a virtual aggregate of aqueous layers,
patterned yet transparent.
Connections, paths, tissues, fluids…
Lives…lines, words, letters…

The gesture might be the movement of light,
a sound of laughter,
the reverberations of a deep voice…
or a soundless flower.
A leaf…a leaving…
catching a breeze.

-pbp