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Needful Magic, no. 63

I don’t give a ship… lost & lonely ©2023 blueskipper

Needful Magic, no. 30

As we grow nearer to the longest day of summer, our planet is traveling farther away from the sun – we will be at our farthest point from the sun on July 6, the solar aphelion. The effect of the sun’s gravity will be at its weakest, so the earth will be at the slowest speed of its orbit. The slower speed makes the summer longer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the perihelion makes the winter…

From the Travelogue of Mrs. Haggard In the cities of Canopus and Xanadu, the patterof beggars drumming on the doors of your taxi,and the pounding of blunt rain upon a bitumenroof, are indistinguishable from the beating soundof a thousand long-winged swallows released. All Posts in the Two Poems Series About the Series

An Ordinary Life Outside the Natural Sciences From our oasis in the geometriccenter of our appliance nationwe can peer through apertures,eat hard matter, fashion atomsinto dioramas and escape throughlies told since recorded historybegan quaking or crumblingor shifting backwards, constrainedin some kind of rude downfallor outlandish resultor southern divergenceor seventh inning stretch—a vast…

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