<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></span></font><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"> A Journey Lighted by the Aurora Polaris</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"> 15 Chinese Elephants are on a long march north</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"> and no one knows why </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>New York Times, June 2021</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>forget the fallen</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>embrace the risen</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the unexpected vision </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>exposes the hidden</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">beyond village and farmland </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">fifteen great lumbering endlings</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">move in heavy unrelenting folds</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">through the wrinkled gray</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.8px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">a fallen industrial world tatters ties </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">an unwarranted lacuna</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">stalls the engine of the ordinary--</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">distance is now the imperative</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">singularity names them all</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">provides remembered diasporas </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">a heightened sense of new well being</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">a buffer of shared belonging </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">admit the hidden path to Polaris </font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">guidance transmitted silently</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">by delicate vibrations whispered</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">into the elephant ear</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 3.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> A Les and Fran Braided Poem</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><font face="Helvetica">(Les Bernstein and Fran Claggett-Holland)</font></span></p><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><br></span></font><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;">Sent from the imaginal realm.</span></font></div></div></body></html>