FIG. 1 — THE SKY, SEEN FROM BELOW Moscoviense Tsiolkovskiy Apollo Korolev moonmilk MOONMILK. soft white carbonate; forms on cave walls and on the far side of certain nights. dream window return DREAM WINDOW RETURN. a window observed returning. not about Kyōto, maybe the Kyōto school re: humidity in jaro — cloud conference ⚠ UNDER CONSTRUCTION CLOUD CONFERENCE. the deities are still in a meeting. please do not disturb. (page pending) argence ARGENCE. a silver weather. see also: second star, silverness. a leaf falling A LEAF FALLING.for about a second. blueprint BLUEPRINT.sound, blood.
map of the supercontinent Pangaea
the ground, an earlier draft
(Pangaea, ~200 Mya)
moonmilk ↻ SUPERCONTINENT. the arrangement underneath is provisional. swipe moonmilk and it reassembles into a configuration that also used to be true.
FIG. 2 — THE SEA, LONG DISTANCE in manchuria IN MANCHURIA. a landmass visible only in certain weather. it is not manchuria. it has never been manchuria, which is the point. big boat big boat BIG BOAT.archival audio, 1940s. legible upside down and right side up, like most inheritances. hic sunt? insulae incognita INSULAE INCOGNITA. islands present on no two charts in the same place. approach by dead reckoning only; night bus NIGHT BUS. departs nightly, frame by frame, one note at a time. now NOW.updated whenever. dungan DUNGAN.returns before waking, usually. do not call its name loudly.
FIG. 3 — THE SHORE, ONE HOUSE five horizon intersection FIVE HORIZON INTERSECTION.continue at a small distance. sand dollar exchange SAND DOLLAR EXCHANGE. current rate: 1 sand dollar = 1 sand dollar. bureau opens at low tide and honors all previous tides. 隅 quoin QUOIN (ECONOMICS). a cornerstone, a wedge, several currencies
FIG. 4 — THE SHELF, KEPT THINGS the egg THE EGG.see kitchen, fig. 3. leads back to the three doors. 72 × 3 body clocks BODY CLOCKS. the 72 microseasons, three ways a b k ng the world THE WORLD. 28 letters in a magnetic billiard unsent mail UNSENT MAIL. address illegible
fossil of Dickinsonia costata
somebody we used to be
(ediacara hills, 558 Mya)
after we misremember the grains AFTER WE MISREMEMBER THE GRAINS. the photograph is fine.
Ernst Haeckel plate of starfish (Asteridea)
five arms, one apart
(Haeckel, Asteridea, 1904)
five horizon intersection ASTERIDEA. radial near-symmetry
FIG. 5 — THE STRATA, DEEP TIME
— 0 m TO 40 m · SEDIMENTARY / METAMORPHIC / IGNEOUS — sandstone, schist, andesite field notes — 40 m TO 65 m · FLOWERING FAULT LINE — escarpment pinks dianthus growing where the ground disagrees with itself — 65 m TO 8� m · UNCONF�RMITY (DATA MISSING) — after we misremember the grains sections with gloves. — 80 m TO 300 m · FOSSILIFEROUS LIST BEDS — i wanted to think about time, i wanted order of deposition not — 300 m TO 635 Ma · EDIACARAN BIOTA (STILL REACHABLE) — the ediacaran, by telephone soft bodies, no predators, excellent reception. Charnia masoni, an Ediacaran frond fossil — BELOW 635 Ma · SUBMERGED SPEECH BED — 口 / mouth a mouth underwater; translations surface when touched.

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