the   train   is   a    dashing    arrow 
 over               the              sea. 
                                     
                                    
                                     
 look   closer   -    it's   not   water. 
                                    
                                  
                                    
 the  lowland which  was once the midriff 
 of  sweden.  the  salt  flats  span  for 
 hundreds of  miles.  from  a narrow line 
 of  hills  the train lowers  itself onto 
 the  crystals  and shoots north, like  a 
 syringe       into       a       baloon. 
                                  
                                
                                  
                                
                                  
 they  call  it the "mandelbrot  crater", 
 and it is the rest of a mining disaster. 
                                    
                                   
                                    
 sun  hits  the  four-railed track, as it 
 fractures  into  villages or  past them. 
 the  people  here  are  pale  but crisp, 
 reflections    of   some   other   world 
                                     
                                    
                                     
 they always seem a bit annoyed that  you 
 are   manifesting  them  into   physical 
 form.  like  if you  weren't  here, they 
 would  be  nothing  more  than  the  sun 
 against           the           platform