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Sea Ice

from Symbiogenesis by Michael Bell

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I live at the edge of the San Juan Archipelago. Today this is a
region of rainy forests grazed by low cloud, and expanses of calm
gray water, but 50,000 years ago this landscape was under a
couple miles of ice, the vast movement of it carving out these
bays and islands.

A bit further south, giant sloths as big as grizzly bears once
reached into the trees for leaves, and herds of wooly mammoths
shook their steaming heads in the cold morning air while saber-
toothed cats watched them from grassy hills.

And to the north, in inexorable advance, lay the migratory paths
of the ones fixing knapped stone points to their spears with tight
coils of sinew as they rested in their houses of bone.

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from Symbiogenesis, released August 17, 2023

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Michael Bell Bellingham, Washington

A Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too.

Some of this is music for video games. The rest is a fairly raw document of my ongoing attempt to find something new among the blinking lights in my studio at home.

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