P L A N K

The objects under study speak a language of their own and eavesdropping on one of their stolid exchanges runs up against alternative laws of locomotion. There is a race from the perspective of a milestone, a crutch-legged ventriloquist addressing a fertilizing miracle, a rooted stand become arborescent yardstick, an acephalous biped fixated on the lawn rake that would scratch its back, a militant tree stump out on the limb of happenstance, hopscotching over abysmal circumstance. To witness such an encounter is a fatal act that places a chest of insurgency on perilous ground and left to fill the blanks, condemns this stalwart creature to walk the plank.