We wake up knowing what is happening. We go to work knowing what is happening. We eat dinner knowing what is happening. And yet, so often, we do not notice it. There is a pipeline in the ground and we do not feel it. There is poison in our mouths and we do not taste it. Sometimes, it pushes up under other sensations, manifesting as anger or sadness. But, more often than not, it lives in us as an absence. A powerlessness: the elusive sense that something, some untouchable thing, is wrong. I call this feeling ‘land loneliness'. 

 Land loneliness is a trauma symptom. To understand the symptom, we must look upon the wound.

Kelsey Day