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Stephanie Lane Gage

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1: —2: Untitled, stone lithograph, 20123: quote from Carl Sagan4: Containment #1, digital collage, 20135: Disclosure, writing, 20126: photo via NASA’s Mars rover, 20127: Infatuation, monoprint, 20128: “9: Moon, stone lithograph, 201210: quote from Neil Armstrong

The universe seems neitherbenign nor hostile, merelyindifferent.

I woke up today,from a lifelong dreamless sleep. Amongst a vast sea of black and

the tiny pinpricks of stars, I saw the Earth. A blue marble, floating halfway in the light of the sun, the small purple moon its only companion. I should have been in awe... but I felt a fire. An

anger, a resentment. The sight was sickening.

I HAVE AN IN-FATUA-T I O N

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.