Everything Is Far Away From Here

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Everything Is Far Away From Here

Text and 110 Photographs

Steve Kemple


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I remember something:

A reticent dawn traveled through the air. Above my headgeometries converged in an oceanic singularity. Space shifted andundulated, a mirror turned into itself, was multiplied, innumerable,skittering into a graceful endless infinity, darkening repeatedforms, descending out of sight into a silvery luster.


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Did you see that?I pointed at the sky.

She did not say anything.Her neck was craned in the same direction as my arm.

I said nothing, too.Our necks craned together at 2:24 pm on a Thursday.


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I wonder, she began.I looked at her.I dont know...Our necks were craned, the glimmering speck descending into themist.Her words descended into mistMy ears craned to listen.My ears craned into mist.Something glimmered.


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I dreamed last night that the sky was an ocean and the ground wascovered in distant clouds and that I could not remembersomething. I walked over the distant clouds and a solemn jetpassed above me, its trail bisecting the sky, turning slowly intoitself, its distance vanishing, a soliloquy of descending mist, and Ilooked away briefly, turned back, and it was gone.


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Our mouths filled with helium, we dreamed hazily into thedistance.


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A solitary jet glanced along the surface of the sky, drifted into aninfinite departure and my gaze along with it.


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Everything is far away from here.I remember feeling this as a child, gazing between the leavestoward the moon, pale against the drifting morning sky, its watersstretching narrowly into distant treelines, which I imagined to befar off mountains along every horizon, a barrier between what ishere and the universes edge. I remember the sidewalks in the sky,plotted by gleaming points flickering along the canopy, pathsarcing along an icy sunlit expanse; reticent and weary ghosts whowalked along the sidewalks in the sky, and far away clouds mingledwith the fixed stars.


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Did you see that?No.A jet just flew by and it was beautiful.What was it like?I dont remember.


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