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| 2 | title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror | ||
| 3 | id: moongone | ||
| 4 | genre: prose | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | ekphrastic: | ||
| 7 | image: moongone.jpg | ||
| 8 | title: The moon is gone | ||
| 9 | link: 'http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120102.html' | ||
| 10 | |||
| 11 | project: | ||
| 12 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 13 | class: elegies | ||
| 14 | order: 18 | ||
| 15 | prev: | ||
| 16 | - title: Ronald McDonald | ||
| 17 | link: ronaldmcdonald | ||
| 18 | next: | ||
| 19 | - title: The mountain | ||
| 20 | link: mountain | ||
| 21 | ... | ||
| 22 | |||
| 23 | The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now | ||
| 24 | yields nothing but the viewer's own face as viewed from a million miles, | ||
| 25 | surrounded by the landscape he is only vaguely aware of being surrounded | ||
| 26 | by. He believes that he is [alone][], surrounded by desert and mountain, but | ||
| 27 | behind him---he now sees it---someone is sneaking up on him. He spins around | ||
| 28 | fast, but no one is there on [Earth][]. He looks back up and they are yet | ||
| 29 | closer in the night sky. Again he looks over his shoulder but there is | ||
| 30 | nothing, not even a desert mouse. As he looks up again he realizes it's | ||
| 31 | a cloud above him, which due to optics has looked like someone else. The | ||
| 32 | cloud blocks out the moon which is now a mirror, and the viewer is | ||
| 33 | completely alone. | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | [alone]: apollo11.html | ||
| 36 | [Earth]: serengeti.html | ||