New Mexico became for us a representation of the capacity for biological and astronomical resonance and retreat; the improbable made possible through an imaginative framework alternative to the empirical environment. A spring spent mostly sick, 'which figured to our gaze the significant futures that during those years came to pass ... indecipherable from the world during those years ... fatally indistinguishable from the world it attempted to adumbrate, to signify.' - John Clute.