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The Night the Sun Blinked

Mars from orbit, dried river deltas branching across red-black rock.01
Dried up lake beds and rivers show that water once whistled over Mars...
Faint figures of golden light along the banks of a dried Martian river.02
Something drank from them.
Inside the bus at night, every passenger asleep, phone screens glowing gold.03
Did you feel tired before the new moon... slept in a little late, or took a nap?
Six planets strung in a line across a predawn desert sky above a tiny bus.04
On this new moon, six planets happen to align themselves with an eclipse...
A holographic astrologer of golden light raises a hand at a desert bus stop.05
Those who study the stars watched this peculiar positioning precisely that night...
A dark room seen in another spectrum, thick with amber threads of invisible signal.06
Invisible strings prepared our posture while we wandered unaware...
A sleeping passenger rendered as a stringed instrument of golden light.07
Playing lullabies with the tides as our destination arrives...
A total eclipse with a golden corona over a darkened ridge.
Updating the melody of our molded masses...
Sleeping passengers with veins of golden light running through them.09
Did you feel it too? Something shimmering inside of you?
A sleeping face in profile with a Martian river valley surfacing through it behind a veil of amber light.10
A planet that outgrew its physical form echoes in our mind...
People dance on the bus roof under string lights as a new crescent returns.11
Reminding us that we're here to have a good time...
Rear view of the bus driving away past a crescent-moon road sign.12
Did you feel it too? A signal.. a sign..