The little sharp bits

Ground to a uniform consistency that, from a distance, resembles nothing so much as a sheet of wet/dry emery paper.

Closer inspection revealing jagged peaks, hidden dark crevasses, well worn gullies and meandering rat ways.

Hidden passages, insurmountable obstacles, echoing courtyards and well hewn stone.

Homogenized by distance

   ever expanding perspective

       and the slow hiss of times inexorable passing.