By Jack Joseph Smith
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Jesus and Simon Ashiku stand as rare witnesses in a waterless red-dog landscape where the lost are urged back before canyon, dust, and moon-cut abandonment.
Simon Ashiku is placed beside Jesus as one of the few who has truly seen, but even seeing seems to require a second look. The canyon crying, dust across the sun, cut-off moon, and missing water make the terrain feel apocalyptic and intimate at once. Crossing the sand and stopping one more time suggests that wildness is not a destination but a test of whether anyone can actually carry it off.
A waterless, near-apocalyptic landscape where true seeing is rare and doubled: 'Only Jesus and Simon Ashiku / have ever seen anything / unless they saw it twice'. The lost are summoned back -- 'You lost your way / Hurry back / The canyon cries for you' -- amid 'Dust across the sun', 'A cut off Moon', 'No water now'. The terrain is fixed and harsh, 'The road has always / been red dog', and the close makes wildness a test, not a destination: 'I crossed the sand and stopped / One more time / How wild it is / If you can't pull it off'.