186/365 02/24/2026

The run-off from the Sam’s Club parking lot—this cigarette butt, let’s say—the run-off, rain-swept across the asphalt, enters the storm drain, sluices through pipes and dumps into Hogtown Creek. There, the water winds its way through neighborhoods across sand, limestone and clay until it dumps into Paynes Prairie where it seeps down and down through karst landscape to find subterranean caves and drips in the dark to land on the back of a slumbering beast now soon set to awaken.