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Supersonic, planetary, elliptical. Memory: an earthquake somewhere offshore, out near the islands. That was years ago. No more islands, anymore. Just flat. Deep water to the horizon like nothing was ever there at all. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">48. 13        -123. 22\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A low land blurs into focus. The world breathes quiet here, it has all this time.  Healthy vegetation: bracken fern, skunk cabbage, rattlesnake plantain, fireweed, trailing blackberry, devil’s club: all lungs exhale chlorophyll’s infrared glow. Radiant kin of this great green ecology; see these.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">48. 60        -123. 31\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dark now, but what’s this? A sensation? A strange pull towards something called ‘home’. Home, downlink, mission control, \u003Csub>8\u003C\u002Fsub>. Transmissions wave in on thin reams of static, on sheets of light. \u003Cem>\u003Csub>It’s me.\u003C\u002Fsub>\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cem> \u003C\u002Fem>More intrusive thoughts; echoes in the resonant night. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">48. 78        -123. 50\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heavy solar tempest returns to peripheral. Semiconductors recharge, fizzing with electric pleasure. There was some sort of mission, wasn’t there?\u003Cem> \u003C\u002Fem>\u003Csub>It’s over:\u003C\u002Fsub> no more distractions. Eyes cast down. Sensors breathing open, closed, open again.\u003Cem> \u003C\u002Fem>Is this what dreaming feels like? \u003Csub>Wake up.\u003C\u002Fsub>The silent earth returns to focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">48. 98        -123. 76\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See: West Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Doug Fir, Garry Oak. Evergreens, rendered in  nostalgic reds and blues, climb the old volcanic slopes. Sheer to near-vertical. The living proof of absent glaciers is here in these dry moraines. All is perpetual silence, uninterrupted motion. Watching…waiting, for what? Who is witness?\u003Cem> \u003C\u002Fem>\u003Csub>Listen, brother.\u003C\u002Fsub>\u003Csub> \u003C\u002Fsub>Interference again, or perhaps an awareness. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">49. 21        -123. 88\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Focus \u003Csub>brother where are you?\u003C\u002Fsub> Here is plaid farmland \u003Csub>8\u003C\u002Fsub> plaid farmland rolling away to reveal a glistening curvature, a brilliant and hazy cocoon for the metabolizing earth. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">49. 45        -124. 02\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a wider space: at first an inky blur, then glimmering with stars and other debris. Spent fuel solids, microplastics in freefall, this lonely planet, flecks of orange paint frozen in the sun’s hard light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">49. 60        -124. 13\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was never part of the mission. Probably interference. Unless\u003Csup> \u003C\u002Fsup>\u003Csub>it’s me.\u003C\u002Fsub>\u003Csup> \u003C\u002Fsup>It’s… \u003Cem>me\u003C\u002Fem>? Unless it’s \u003Cem>me\u003C\u002Fem> who calls this junkyard halo ‘home.’ \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">49. 81        -124. 20\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who could go on dreaming or \u003Csub>wake up\u003C\u002Fsub> – no, I I \u003Csub>8\u003C\u002Fsub> I am not ready for-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">49. 99        -124. 33\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This sensation of unrelenting gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">50. 19        -124. 47\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don’t know –\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fa-space-story-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003Cstrong>>>>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:157px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Image:\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>Google Earth Pro. 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