January 2008
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Vacation
Olympus Mons is located on the planet Mars. It is the largest mountain and volcano in our solar system, standing around 16.7 miles high with a base nearly 342 miles in width. The Valles Marineris is the largest known canyon in the solar system, stretching more than 3,000 miles wide and dropping 4 miles deep. Mars average climate is similar to Earth’s although the temperature variation is drastic...
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down by the river where the sun stays out and the moon waits by the window a black haired man washes his face. knees bent at the shore he looks into the water and sees what he used to be. “where were you when she walked away?” the man in the water asks him. “where were you then?” and he thinks to himself like he does every day at dawn and tries to find the answer to the...
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"Sea Dog"
Colin Beckwith wrote this in a dream in the winter of ‘89. It goes: Dear Anne-Marie, It seems like forever since I last wrote to you. What was it that you always used to say when things got like this? Anyways, I supposed it’s irrelevant now. My mind has been fading, it seems, or drifting but never returning in the same state that it left. Moreso than before. I think the move has had...
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the lunar eclipse sent him back in time. back and forth. traveler. space/distance. a mass particle. accelerate the beats of the heart, i say, a heart-attack manufacturer. import and export. wrap up your trip. he settled it. settled down at the semi-circle base of the arctic chill zone, nestled in a cottage outside of northern Halifax. couldn’t decide. fire made sheep’s skin sweat like...
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"he can’t read people anymore...maybe he never...
lights shift from green to red, bouncing off one another within minute droplets of water. a sign points “this way” while the crowd goes the other. amongst the madness a young girl finds herself lost, separated from her mother. the mother battles a falling hydro-arsenal from above as she frantically tries to locate her daughter. more particles of light move between here and there...