This was a Forest Once

Dockrey, Angela

This was a Forest Once

dc.contributor.author	Dockrey, Angela
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-13T07:16:22Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-13T07:16:22Z
dc.date.issued	2024	en_US
dc.department	Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies (CJAS)
dc.description.abstract	and the land remembers, its bitterness distilled in the snap of a sage leaf: sap fusing to skin, pungent, tacky blood that sticks in the vein. Did you know sage leaves grow silvered hair? To deflect, blur—the sun that feeds also burns, so violet. That’s why the desert cannot be green. It’s easy to lose one’s way in this economy of sameness, one plant, copy pasted. Then the playa, of cracked mud, salt, white-glare memory of water. It bites the eyes. What here still endures? Tools, shells, bodies, Mesozoic wood turned to stone. Stone worn down to sand. A twisted bristlecone, five-thousand years old, bleached like bone; its roots drink from a deep place we cannot know. All endures, albeit changed. Even you, even me. As I walked in that bright and desiccated place, I thought I dreamt of water, but. It was just another pool of Light: trickling, rippling, Light without
dc.identifier.citation	Dockrey, Angela. 2024. “This was a Forest Once.” Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities 5, no. 1 (June): 35.
dc.identifier.endpage	35	en_US
dc.identifier.issue	1	en_US
dc.identifier.startpage	35	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.46863/ecocene.108
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12695/3035
dc.identifier.volume	5	en_US
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları
dc.relation.ispartof	Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Makale - Uluslararası - Editör Denetimli Dergi - Başka Kurum Yazarı
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en_US
dc.subject	[Keywords Not Available]
dc.title	This was a Forest Once
dc.type	Article