A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically, that he remakes it in his image.

                                                                  Joan Didion

he preferred the sentence up to remembering most obsessively

                                                                   remaking a place violates it

those that attracted him were unspoiled

he obsessed they remain untouched

when barbed wire went up he cut it down midspan the posts at their bases

he painted blackface TRESPASSERS WILL BE VIOLATED signs sure hed be forgiven

he knew the land  entered on foot if pursuedpush came to shove he could ride the river out

he kept vigileyes peeled from secluded overlooks

he had books all the time in the worlds

the landowners no they didnt were tenacious

he was obsessed

obsession dominates tenacity

somebody wouldnt know if they met him

earlier this Century,  mebbe 2010 mebbe not

1411,  Thursday,  23  12. 21

Tony Allen  Never Satisfied  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08nuPYZBFMo