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