Carol Gano - Moving

Slowly, slowly – creeping, slithering, temperatures cooling – melted lava through the sands

Food and water – the ongoing daily need, out from the nested camouflaged tunnels

Up from under the topsoil

Up from silica sands and out to the ambiance enjoyed by all night’s creatures 

Creatures of the night: 

• Crawling 

• Flying 

• Silently hunting prey 

Spiders and moths and snakes 

Mice and vermin 

Evolutions mirrored active time – not Truffaut’s “Day for Night”, but night as day 

Sonar and selective eyesight 

• Exquisite genetic mutations meeting needs which allow transforming darkness to visual fields. 

Plant-leaves angling to catch any and all the dewpoints drop 

• Heliotropic activity 

*All the dessert’s beings coming out while dropped temperature induce it. 

Moving from their shelters from the sun, shelters from the drying, frying inhospitable. 

Small living things. Small beings. Ecologically adapted to night life and sleep cycles inverse to human health.

Ranging over the lands through the sky, hunting moving 

ever on the move 

Until – that first hint of colour returns to the eastern horizon. 

The purples, reds, pink, oranges then the full blazing yellow sun lifts its head and all scurry back to their safe underground, cool homes 

To sleep, digest their night meal and remain safe over the hours of infernal heat.