Some things stay because everything around them left.
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The grandfather who never moved out of the village the others moved away from. The library on the high street the chain stores never replaced. The friend in the group who is always there because nobody else has been there as long. They became central not because they meant to. The departures of others made them so. They are now what the rest of the picture orients itself around, whether they asked for the job or not.
A single mesa rises out of open scrubland, the only height for miles. The plateau around it eroded down half a million years ago. The mesa held. Above, a sky of high cirrus does what the sky here always does. The mesa goes on standing as the only thing tall enough to notice.
Sits alongside Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, or any book read at the table of somebody who has been in one place a long time.
Every continent has at least one of these. A finger of stone, a spire, a monolith, left standing by erosion long after the rock around it has gone. From a distance it looks placed on purpose, as if someone had built it to keep an eye on the valley. Closer up, it is older than the country it stands in. The whole thing has been doing the same job for longer than there have been people to notice.
