Talking to the bush by Jim Athanas
Lost within a dream, the hero gets entangled in another universe. Following some short of an adventure involving a giant snake chasing menacingly the hero’s boat, a new world is created. A new earth which is completely covered with lava and only one column of soil mass exists. On the surface of this ground, the hero stands alone, reminiscing and discussing with a bush that’s right outside his house. He talks and analyzes and hopes for something to change the current situation. All these take place while the column of earth that they inhabit is slowly drawn deeper inside the lava, piece by piece
