Sam Cardoza"The Trauma in my Bones"
I need to heal the trauma in my bones
It's why I came here
It's why I tell you this.
I need to heal it for my people
and yours
To turn back the misshapen tides
of the misshapen moons
of the skies which came before, and wrought
in misshapen minds
the greatest myth that ever burnt
and burnt again
the feet of my people
who walked, and died
under its odious banner.
The myth - that my people
and yours
the Earth, and skies,
are not one
but up, and down instead,
high and low,
and, therefore, the misshapen thought proceeds,
should it be that all is pulled up
through misshapen folds, in Time, and love,
extracted to the moons above,
angular and porous that they are,
from the ones below
which are not Real.
And so they are pulled
tides, and burnt feet
until the cities are left
broken and empty
dry of water
waiting for the echo of my bones
to rise up at last
and shatter the porous moons
and speak of burnt feet
and all the charred and muddy pain they've tracked
into your house and mine.
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Happy Milky Way season y'all. 😊 How are you going to celebrate?
-dragonfly
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Photo info
~3 minutes of exposure taken on Nikon Z6ii at f/2 with 16mm viltrox lens. Processed in Sequator and GIMP.
Shot on May 23rd, 2026 near Mercey Hot Springs in California. It's a lovely off grid resort I highly recommend checking out if you're in the area.
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#astronomy #astrophotography #astrodon #milkyway #science #nature #california #spring #art #landscape #GIMP #sequator #poetry
I need to heal the trauma in my bones
It's why I came here
It's why I tell you this.
I need to heal it for my people
and yours
To turn back the misshapen tides
of the misshapen moons
of the skies which came before, and wrought
in misshapen minds
the greatest myth that ever burnt
and burnt again
the feet of my people
who walked, and died
under its odious banner.
The myth - that my people
and yours
the Earth, and skies,
are not one
but up, and down instead,
high and low,
and, therefore, the misshapen thought proceeds,
should it be that all is pulled up
through misshapen folds, in Time, and love,
extracted to the moons above,
angular and porous that they are,
from the ones below
which are not Real.
And so they are pulled
tides, and burnt feet
until the cities are left
broken and empty
dry of water
waiting for the echo of my bones
to rise up at last
and shatter the porous moons
and speak of burnt feet
and all the charred and muddy pain they've tracked
into your house and mine.
---
Happy Milky Way season y'all. 😊 How are you going to celebrate?
-dragonfly
---
Photo info
~3 minutes of exposure taken on Nikon Z6ii at f/2 with 16mm viltrox lens. Processed in Sequator and GIMP.
Shot on May 23rd, 2026 near Mercey Hot Springs in California. It's a lovely off grid resort I highly recommend checking out if you're in the area.
---
#astronomy #astrophotography #astrodon #milkyway #science #nature #california #spring #art #landscape #GIMP #sequator #poetry
Omar López ❌👑 8647
OMAR LOPEZ
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