THE PILGRIM art-code-8/15 when the first stone room

when the first stone room was built for a blacksmith’s shop and a stagecoach stop at the base of a treacherous trail

The teeth can be in focus

and when I go out to ride will chatter as if they wish me to acknowledge their presence

struggle to beat the threshold of what is banal

THE PILGRIM art-code-8/15 when the first stone roomVolcanoes National Park, Rwanda 2020 Dian Fossey the Californian zoologist who became the worlds leading authority on the mountain gorilla left a formidable legacy when she was tragically murdered in 1985. Her resting place, high up in the rain forest, is visited regularly by those that want to pay homage to her life. Fosseys famous book Gorillas in the Mist chronicled her research and conservation work that helped to reduce the downward population