Notes from the Trans-Siberian ...farm, straw hats, gravestones in copses, shrub and brush, glass-fragment guarded prisons, rows of brick houses, hidden courtyards, putrid rubbish pits, lambent peaks, trees sprout from stonewall, moss melts down the craggy crest, little Russian lad with a toy motorcycle, sandals and a chocolate mustache, lone sunflower on a dirt pile, rows of rice pass, conical strawhats float over the fields, mules trot sluggishly hoofing dust, distant monastic isles in an expansive bog, the great mountainous wall of nature drapes the horizon, the jigsaw skyline of jagged summits, slender dancing tree swarm flat prairie and climb stepped terraces, lone stonemarker at a dirt crosspaths. Nearing Ulan Bataar: horses' hooves tied (chained?) together, lone motorcycle on the prairie, camel carcass guarded by a vulture (falcon), "outdoor pool" (morning game of billiards on
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