Of Another Universe

The magic is in the numbers
                                the colors
                                 the people
                                  the lineage
                                    the names

You have to take a risk, follow a link, look deeply and
     understand the weather
                       the myriad of variables, and, always,
                       be willing to abandon logic and certainty in an instant.

Each race is a puzzle with its own cast of characters
         each animal and each human carries infinitely more variables,

                             and then there is the very ground trod upon, with moisture or not,
                  with grass or clay or mud or synthetic-
                 the brown sugary beach sand that yields to the size of a foot or the cleat of a shoe.

     Body language tells the tale, makes the magic.