On writing a landscape you mean to become part of Words by Alden Carrow On writing a landscape you mean to become part of Peat under the fingernails. Rain finding the seam in an old coat. A boot sole worn thin by the same miles, walked a hundred times. This is where the real question lives — not in the abstract, but in the wet ground underfoot. The question is this: what does it mean to write about a landscape not as a visitor passing through, but as someone who intends to be