Still Waters

Late one winter night I returned to a water park I first visited during a middle school field trip. Cold and lonely I wandered down the empty path taking 4 second exposures without a tripod.

Now I stood before the roller coasters in the same spot as that day in my past. Alone now, then I had been surrounded by friends…

Nervously standing next to the ruler it was determined that I was only just allowed on the biggest coaster which earlier I had announced that I would ride. A gate was lifted although now doubt plagued me while the crowd goaded me to approach the line-up of carts.

In a moment of blind panic I turned back, unable to go through with my earlier boasts. As I began to disembark an employee closing the gates shook his head and pointed me towards the ride. There was no turning back and as I settled in the wild, up, and down ride that could become my life had lurched to its hesitant start.

I entered that park on a fiery summer afternoon and now along with my hometown I leave it behind on a cold February night.

-2012-
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
ascenders
voyage
hole
icarus

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
the pit
treasure
narrow
snowfall
chute
false floor
monolith
crack
freeze
slice
bunker
beckon
treasure
resolution

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
scarlet fever
rebirth from hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
crypt
still waters
shadow movements
meager rations
sw pt.8: geothermal + ending
sw pt.7: lost gold mines
sw pt.6: big tube caves
sw pt.5: gold!
sw pt.4: el calderon caves
sw pt.3: redondo
sw pt.2: ghosts
southwest adventure pt.1
the river
dark salvation
reflections
dreams
the underdark
night odyssey
beginnings