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authorCase Duckworth2015-03-25 21:49:45 -0700
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Flatten directory structure
All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /.
I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make
linking easier.  I'm still thinking about whether I should
move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into
an 'assets' folder of some sort.  We'll see.
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2title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site
3id: apollo11
4genre: verse
5
6ekphrastic:
7 image: "img/panorama-apollo11.jpg"
8 title: "Big deal."
9 link: "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141220.html"
10
11project:
12 title: Elegies for alternate selves
13 class: elegies
14 order: 5
15 next:
16 - title: Ars poetica
17 link: arspoetica
18 prev:
19 - title: And
20 link: and
21...
22
23So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if \
24you haven't seen it before, hanging in the sky \
25like a piece of [rotten meat][] nailed to the wall,
26
27a maudlin love letter (the i's dotted with [hearts][]) \
28tacked to the sky's door like ninety-eight theses. \
29Don't stare at it like it means anything.
30
31Don't give it the chance to collect meaning \
32from your hand like an old pigeon. Don't dare ascribe \
33it a will, or call it fickle, or think it has any say
34
35in your affairs. It's separated from your life \
36by three hundred eighty-four thousand miles of space, \
37the same distance you stepped away from time that night
38
39you said your love was broken, a crippled gyroscope \
40knocking in the dark. It was then that time fell apart, \
41had a nervous breakdown and started following you
42
43everywhere, moonfaced, always asking where you're going. \
44You keep trying to get away from it but it nuzzles closer \
45and sings you songs that sound like the cooing of a dove \
46that will only escape again into an empty sky at dawn.
47
48[fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html
49[rotten meat]: roughgloves.html
50[hearts]: proverbs.html