YOU ARE AS GOLD AS A SUNRISE FROM OUTERSPACE

Photographs from Rebirth by Daniel N. Johnson 

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YOU ARE ALL THAT GLITTERS, DEEP LUSTROUS YELLOW, A BOUNTY OF UNSPEAKABLE TREASURE. 
YOU ARE VALUE, THE STANDARD BY WHICH ALL ELSE IS MEASURED. 
YOU ARE FIRST PRIZE EVERY TIME.
YOU ARE METALLIC LEAF, ORE OF THE EARTH, KARAT AFTER KARAT.
YOU ARE THE SWEAT OF THE SUN, FLESH OF THE GODS, 
AN UNDEFINABLE BRILLIANCE MINED FOR ALL OF MANKIND TO BEHOLD.
THAT IS TO SAY, YOU ARE GOLD.
"YOU ARE GOLD"
AMANDA TORRINI 2014

THE TRICK THIS TIME IS MERCURY

RUBBED IN BY HAND, HAND AND CHALICE

BEING EACH OTHER INVERTED

IT GOES LIKE THIS:

BRONZE BONDS FIRST TO THE QUICKSILVER LAYER

TO WHICH THEN FUSES LEAVES OF GOLD

LAID ON BY HAND, THE ELECTRONS SLIP

THEIR ORBIT TO ENTER

AND ANOTHER PLANET SWINGS INTO EFFORT

FOR CENTURIES THE SKY WAS GOLD

"IN LIGHT OF GOLD"
COLE SWENSON 1984


MAY YOU SWING INTO EFFORT, AND ENTER ANOTHER ORBIT AS YOU
LOSE YOURSELF TO THE LATEST PODCAST FROM MELBOURNE DEEPCAST MIXED BY FUDGE FINGAS.

"BEGINNING WITH A JOURNEY TO THE MOON AND ENDING WITH A VIEW OF SUNRISE FROM OUTER SPACE"

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