I am a wanderer. And I am a wonderer. In my experience, one invites the other. When I wander, my sense of wonder is invigorated and untethered. When I wonder, my meandering mind almost invariably sets my feet and legs in motion. A wondering mind in a wandering body. Sauntering away from home, toward (and into) Rosslyn’s backland five years ago, I accidented upon this spectacular serpentine rock.
I contemplated it, marveling at its beauty. A well worn field stone deposited, no doubt, by a glacier after tumbling it, revealing a snakelike stream of white crystals meandering the green-blue-gray boulder.
I snapped a single photograph, and an unremarkable one at that. It was Wednesday, March 25, 2020, four days after Susan and I began COVID-19 quarantining.
On March 21, 2020 we were evacuated from the West Indies on one of the last (perhaps *THE* last) flights out of Antigua back to the U.S… Our family vacation was suddenly cut short, and we found ourselves adjusting to a new reality. Lockdown… [a] slow motion, introspective time. (Source: Quarantining & Brainstorming)
I’ve edited the original photograph a fair bit to create both of the images in this post. Why am I not showing the original?  Well, as I’ve said above, because it was unremarkable. Documentary. Adequate. A reminder.
In fact, I’ve tried to re-create the encounter, to witness the wonder once again.
But I’ve been unable to find it. Evagation after evagation, but the serpentine stone has mysteriously vanished. And that’s peculiar because it’s more boulder than stone. Too big to lift. Mostly concealed by soil and leaves and sticks. I intend to look again now that spring has come, and I’m committed to finding it this time. If so, I’ll add a new photograph. But until then, I’ll offer you two facsimiles. One colorful. One colorless. One accurate and representational. One abstract and whimsical. 
Found art. Lost. For now. But found again soon. I hope.
Sometimes a glacier deposited boulder is a boulder. Or part of a stone wall. Sometimes it’s a poem.
This one, for certain, is the latter.
What do you think?