Clouds, trees, lake

In this photo the infrastructure of everything you cannot see presses squarely at the margins of everything you can: capital exempted from taxes, Asian carp, humidity arising from the rain-soaked earth, a young couple, confused seabirds, lengthy puddles, the late sonata of Beethoven’s to which the photographer was listening, the ache in the small of his back, the umbrella dangling from his fingers, the t-shirt perceptibly heavier with moisture than it had been before he left the house. Description of a description the moment before he lifted up his phone to capture the beginning of a new run of days.