The mountain road brick-red of dust laced with lizard tracks, coming up through the peach orchard, hot, windless, cloistral in a silence of no birds save one vulture hung in the smokeblue void of the sunless mountainside, rocking on the high updrafts, and the road turning and gated with bullbriers waxed and green, and the green cadaver grin sealed in the murky waters of the peach pit, slimegreen skull with newts coiled in the eyesockets and a wig of moss.
The description vividly paints a scene of a desolate mountain road, characterized by its dusty, brick-red hue and the tracks of lizards. As the road winds through a peach orchard, it conveys a sense of oppressive heat and stillness, broken only by the presence of a solitary vulture in the sky. The atmosphere seems heavy with silence, evoking an eerie solitude in the absence of bird songs. The imagery of bullbriers...
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