> The way you wrote it, I had both in my mind.
That was the hard part … and why I had to render it … perhaps ironically, perhaps appropriately, perhaps both … as an image of text rather than pure text … because the medium of (ha!) Medium doesn’t allow me to lay the text out appropriately — and why it was a pain in the arse … because I’m crap at graphic work <sigh> …. and hence putting it off.
It’s nice if I can conjure either one alone/individually, but that you saw them as I did … both simultaneously, yet both separately … is especially gratifying.
Although I didn’t see them as being left/right of each other but rather occupying the same space in different spacetime continua.
So that’s something you brought to it yourself … your own thinking. [1]
I did, however, actually see the two landscapes as one myself, so I’ll grant you that much … but I didn’t imagine both sets of birds in picture simultaneously — because the explosion had a single locus … either in the marsh or on the pier.
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[1] Lousy readers!
