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Asteroid
Protean dust wafts in the black vacuum, blasted from rock as an engine passes by. Its particles glitter and spiral as if timeless. They breeze in the jet wind and pollinate other grey asteroids as if the abyss is in spring, the voyaging spaceship their honeybee in flight. But the uranium craft is silent in the nonexistent air. The temples of its hull open—unfurling petals of a bud—and a smaller vehicle appears, accompanied by two human cadets. The propelled drone sparks its headlights and its beams surveil the miasmatic field of steely matter. Grass cannot grow here to supplement a burgeoning biosphere; there is no soil, rich in nitrate, for the researchers to settle their orbiting boots…
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the ice is dripping / and the world is in the place in-between / cold water is kicked up my leg. / the grass shines with frost and melt; / somewhere between the earth and a river / the mud is chunky and cold. / the world is in the place in-between / my parents: / one is the sun, the thaw, / the melt, the change and the / coming green through wilt. / the other is permafrost. / the solidity / the support / the crunch underfoot / the silence / and the unbending rigidity. / the world is in the place in-between / and I am forcibly a part of it; / I must walk the trails / with snow still in their corners, / I must live between the parents, / in the night he freezes / and at noon she shines / the world is in the place in-between / it is…
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