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Lessons Unlearned Before The Solar Eclipse (2024) Con/Jur/d, 4/3/2024 “Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think” - Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed Too many complications in the dream where we didn’t finish our plans for using The Moon’s Shadow to fly we hadn’t realized until, today, although ‘the unfinished’ oozed PRIMARY THEME And appeared to be the irritant DAY RESIDUE taking the brunt of our attention, remembering THE HANGED MAN Who, holding their hat, hung outlined, above THE CIRCLE OF ABSENT LIGHT a circumference circumscribed by a glowing lunarity, etched in relief, by the dry stone tang of impossibly cold rocks, should have immediately suggested, to us upon re-arrival here in the other place of THE SOLAR ECLIPSE the words had yet to etch themselves to interrupt and mar this endless illumination There, just as here, so many plans interrupted voices saying, don’t start a poem with a quote do something original, don’t become an airport ghost, where despite the assaults on dignity and desire, we are allowed to haunt a certain bland immortality, for the privilege of penetrating the winds, as if for a moment we were awkward and dull birds. Last night at the hospital, insisted we should choose how we perform this eclipse since we can reasonably expect it to be our last show and to ignore THE APOCALYPSE CARNIES barking, “This will last! This will last!” when we know with the same learned certainty that day becomes night, we know we will soon be returning, our shadows will cease casting and we will resume flying once more.
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 4/3/2024
