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