Crowding shadows.
The clearing is surrounded by a forest that is choking itself. Black trunks with the lichen’s bristly beard. The jammed trees are dead all the way to the top, there a few solitary green branches touch the light. Underneath: shadows sitting on shadows, the marsh increasing.
— Tomas Tranströmer
Shadows crowding at a roadside snack shop. Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. December 2020.