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Enterlude
00:23
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It is the not-so distant future. We follow two astronauts sharing a capsule, traveling through space. They are alone. And yet, they are not. This is the story of humanity’s search for life in the Universe and what it finds.
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Earthling 1
01:27
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we are a
moment
of time
spared
motion
this is
the end
of earth,
birthed
umbral
ocean.
i am
not
alone;
they
speak
inside
me, the
ash of
beings,
the last
of home.
they will
be free
among
the
stars,
we,
spilled
clean
among
the
stars.
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3. |
Venus
01:03
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you will grow
into my teeth
the day on which
we shall first meet
vapor blossoms
and tides stilling
you may earn
this favor,
earth, if willing;
speak, speak,
listen;
I will
grow into your
teeth
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5. |
Earth
02:12
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You are leaving me,
one step at a time
into the great abyss,
but I can hold onto you, dear.
You are safe
here with me
and outer space
would consume you /
are not ready, dear,
to so leave your mother
and embrace the night threaded
in such emptiness:
here it speaks
the night is me / me--
you are leaving me
right now; you earth-child
born in this my night;
oh, my child,
you must leave me now
if I am going to survive.
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Mars
03:20
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We speak in glances,
us the light caught
in broken glass:
I your redshift
ocean and you my azure
desert. We trade secrets
in the space between
our days, the rotation
of the night.
You have said to me
that the brightness
by your side was born
of the quietude
we built of our shards
and I wonder, often, at
the glass that litters my
mounts: their glimmer
so rare.
one day we shall meet,
long from now, oh
sister/brother, may we outshine
these stars and see
each other.
The time will pass quickly
before me you martyr
but for now, let us watch
this, the night, shatter
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8. |
Europa
02:00
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my dear, it is me
they will reach us soon
to them i, the sea,
and you, a mere moon—
you cannot hear this,
my love, they will breach
us, dear, please hear this,
as you feel my touch
feel, too, my words: you,
this skin above, through
all time and its death
you have been my breath
love, this is no loss,
this act of chaos
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9. |
Titan
02:30
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rain settles on
my skin in wait
for you, this dew
so patient
(my) oceans stilled
in wait for you
into ancient
blue sinew
saturn breaks her
great glass eyes
on me, for she
loves to make
the ice turn ash
and who am I
now to deny
this motion yet
I still the seas
in wait for you—
and so for you
they may be free
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10. |
Pluto
01:29
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you have come from
so far away but we
did not ask: you see
our blue skies crown
these proud eyes
and see your own;
these mounts grown
from ice your prize.
the bold, he takes
and she rakes this soil
but we are not
an earth-toiled thought;
in our seas drink
wrath, and drown
in the demon
you have sown--
your ship's path
lost in rot
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12. |
TRAPPIST-1e
03:04
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I am not alone–
we keepers of
the dusk.
you will reach us;
I feel it, on my
horizon.
I listen: wind
the night about
my hands
and breathe.
you will reach us,
following this
thread
I leave for you–
the light is
eternal:
the morning
for you to hold
in freedom
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14. |
Earthling 2
01:58
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i am born with
wings: she sings
me to sleep
in this dark deep.
mars speaks red
beside my bed and
i am earthling-two
like flowers grew
in this moment
sailing beyond;
a finite frond in
starry torment--
my name is a
destination, my
mother a home
i will never know
i am born with
wings: she sings
me to sleep
in this dark deep.
she says, "no war,
here," and i listen,
she says, "no war,
here," and i listen,
"there is no sound
in space, so
i can't hear,
mama dear"
past neptune we flew;
the question grew--
"i am earthling-two,
so who are you?"
she says, "no war,
here," and i listen,
and fall asleep,
in this dark deep.
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Divya M. Persaud Los Angeles, California
scientist / musician / writer / the void
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