At night, if you press your ear to the fireplace, you can hear the call and response of the mountains talking to the sea. It is a hypnotic loop. You try to leave, but the door swings back on a perfect turnaround.
Not because it is a prison. Because the house has become a hook. You wake up humming the foundation. You wash dishes to the tempo of the tide. You realize that your heartbeat has synced to the mountain's key. a house in the riff
Down the slope, a fisherman plays a lute at dawn. Up the ridge, a blacksmith hammers an anvil in 4/4 time. The house listens. It filters the noise of the goat bells and the diesel engines and turns it all into a drone. At night, if you press your ear to