The cracks in the dirt are like honeycombs. Or states of the union. The redrock flagstones around the pool are islands set in these dirt canals interior seaways, worn canyons and plateaus on their surfaces. Fractal. Wilted white petals curling brown lie where they fell giant meteors crashed on canals and land. One island is strewn with loose rock from some ancient calamity, a great celestial event that broke the land. What extinction followed? None for the prehistorically massive flies that skyscurry predatory for all that live, their jaws. Their jaws. The sting of life.