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Notes on Opportunity, from a snowy hotel room
A poem
6/30/23
“Notes on Opportunity, from a snowy hotel room” was published in the spring 2019 edition of Arizona State University’s Normal Noise magazine.
The rover walks along the surface of a place that has already far outlived any nomad
Only meant to spend a few nights
The rover’s wheels are as much dirt as prints on the soil
when nothing grows but daytime
after 90 days
5352 days
a storm and missed voicemails
out in the cold longer than expected
Did the ice crunch under the rover’s wheels, precarious, how I walk from the car to the lobby?
I can never tell what I’m looking for when
the storm is against my skin and any moment of warmth is a potion
a sad Happy Birthday turned incantation
a power all my own
revitalizing, or at least, for now,
healing.
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