roselightfairy

An errand took me into one of those many suburban places today, marked by strip-mall lots full of chain companies and strange nooks right next to a roaring highway. The errand itself took about five minutes, but I wandered around for about an hour afterwards, just trying to see what I could see.

In the spirit of what

unnamedelement sometimes does, and conversations I've had about the way my brain works, I've decided to work on paying better attention to the world when I'm out in it, to actually notice what's going on around me. So, have some observations from today's attempt at noticing, although I'm very annoyed that Dreamwidth apparently won't keep my fun-with-spacing formatting.

EDIT: I figured out what to do - the text will be below, still, but here are some pictures of how the formatting is supposed to look.

concrete strip mall
colors stripped
by bleakness
exploration

to my left:
unforgiving gray
roar of robotic lions
to my right:
secret stream

grass cushion
dark verdant through the gleam

of trembling spiderwebs stretched
between bridge rails

four-lane traffic
lights holding back
cars like
hungry
beasts

here
haunt of desolation

abandoned brown-green places
swamp
of sidewalk

bus stop sign
thrust tall
against the lonely sky