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