carbon-made found her at the
End of a chain
"time to race" she said
"race the downhill"

Behind crystalline
irises
loons can dive
where the world
bleeds
white

just keep
your eyes
on her
keep
don't
look

away

keep
your eyes on
her
horizon

Bear Claw
Free Fall
a Gunner's View
black
and
blue
shred
in
ribbons
of
lithium

blow by
blow
Her
Mind
cut
In
Sheets
Layers
Deep
now
unravel
ing

Just
Keep
Your
Eyes
On
Her
Keep
Don't
Look
Away
Keep
Your
Eyes
On
Her
Horizon

Get me Neil on the line
No i can't hold
have him read

'Snow
Glass
Apples"
where
nothing is
what
it
seems

"Little Sis
you must
crack this"
he says to me
"you must
go in again
carbon-made
only
wants
to
be
unmade"
Blade to
ice it's
Double Diamond
time

and keep
your eyes
on her
keep
don't
look away
keep
your eyes on
her eyes
on
her
horizon
on her
eyes
on her
horizon



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Next she meets up with the manic depressive CARBON. They travel through the Black Hills of Dakota and to Wounded Knee, scene of one of the darkest episodes in Native American history. "All Carbon wants is to disintegrate into nothingness. So its an extremely destructive story. Just as people risked their lives to keep their sacred land, a meltdown is about to happen in her life and a waltz into insanity is on the horizon. She's on this downhill race in her mind and Scarlet has to get to her before she kills herself." They end up in a ski resort - Bear Claw, Free Fall and Gunner's View in the song are all ski runs. But for Carbon the normal parameters and boundaries have ceased to apply and given way to self-mutilation and an urge to plunge over the cliff. Scarlet walks into this madness, but the outcome is left unresolved.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio

"Sometimes you don't have to necessarily spend alot of time with somebody to have exchanged alot of yourself and taken away parts of them that become a part of your body map. That sort of become written, tattooed on you in some way. And it can't be seen visibly, but it's felt internally. Carbon is this woman that Scarlet has gone to see. She's carbon-made, she only wants to be unmade. There is a brilliance, though, to Carbon, as there's a brilliance to a diamond. But people chip away and chip away and chip away at this person...because of their brilliance. They wanted her, so they excavated her. So there's not alot left in some ways, but a whole nuther world has been created in other ways for her to survive it. So Scarlet is having to deal with both these people, who live in the one being of Carbon."
-- Scarlet Stories CD