Mr. Cools' Planet

Some days in and around Santiago de Chile. March 2006


Back to Chile


Photos
city&harbor
pablo neruda
the mountains
► the river
the sea
the spa
 

 

The River

We follow the river and the river follows us. Sometimes the river stops and we stop by the river. We pick up the pebbles, we taste their shape, smooth and sweet. The river is our snake in the grass, hiding and moving. And the snake is lean till it eats a big pig and the river has a belly swollen like a snake that has eaten a pig. She has a big thirst and glides through the high grasses, slips out of sight, rests satisfied under the red bridge. One day we get lost in the mountains. Not too far from the city, the world. Dirt roads split every second, they weave a network of roads on the slopes. They never make a mistake, they continue to weave a pattern we cannot discover. Invisible hands guide the thread, one left and the other right. And the pattern becomes full woven and dense, the roads broaden into barren ground, rocks and stones.Where the plain stops and jumps up the mountain, water falls down, the place of the waterfall.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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