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+title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror
+genre: prose
+
+id: moongone
+toc: "The moon is gone and in its place a mirror"
+
+ekphrastic:
+    image: moongone.jpg
+    title: The moon is gone
+    link: 'http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120102.html'
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    class: elegies
+    order: 18
+    prev:
+    - title: Ronald McDonald
+      link: ronaldmcdonald
+    next:
+    - title: The mountain
+      link: mountain
+...
+
+The moon is gone and in its place a mirror.
+Looking at the night sky now yields nothing but the viewer's own face as viewed from a million miles, surrounded by the landscape he is only vaguely aware of being surrounded by.
+He believes that he is [alone][], surrounded by desert and mountain, but behind him---he now sees it---someone is sneaking up on him.
+He spins around fast, but no one is there on [Earth][].
+He looks back up and they are yet closer in the night sky.
+Again he looks over his shoulder but there is nothing, not even a desert mouse.
+As he looks up again he realizes it's a cloud above him, which due to optics has looked like someone else.
+The cloud blocks out the moon which is now a mirror, and the viewer is completely alone.
+
+[alone]: apollo11.html
+[Earth]: serengeti.html