How to feel Moon

First, ask yourself a few questions.

1. What are these new crevices that have suddenly appeared? Is it stress? Is it time?
2. Am I the moon?
3. How do you kiss the moon?
4. How do you scratch the moon?
5. What happens when your feet don’t hit the floor but the rest of your body feels like it is resting on it?
6. How do I show you how I have embraced the moon?
7. What does it mean to know that the first structure on the moon will be a mine?

Now, Reflect.

When I look at my own reflection I see new craters. And then some things that haven’t changed at all. My skin still feels recognizable from a distance. But sometimes I feel far, like I am rotating in a distance. And like there is a lot of sudden change coming, all at once, like a sneeze.

No. I am learning to kiss the moon. I am learning to scratch at the moon.

The scale of the bodies sometimes does not exist.
The hybrid doesn’t exist. We can’t be between your size and my size. We are one or the other. We are big or small. We are looking at you from the distance, or we are imagining being on the surface of you.

Many Indigenous peoples believe that we all share a skin. We all share a body.
My scars are your scars. Share some skin.

You and I don’t exist but we exist,
Our skin is connected to everything in the room with us
the sidewalk, fragmented, extends to my skin - beginning to crack

The act of xeroxing is one thing. moving your skin onto it is another.
Trusting your feet to feel the ground below you

In dance, we trust the space to be discovered, or rather uncovered.
Space doesn’t exist until the body moves through it.
These bricks are feeble attempts to make me turn right or left.
Screw your scenic window of pause.
I prefer to smoke my cigarette next to the dumpsters in the back in-between of the buildings.

Take a moment to learn something new from Mars.

1965. Pre computer. Pre cell phone. It is the first year that color is transmitted through televisions, available for mass market consumption. Mariner 4 was NASA’s probe, trying for the second time to capture an image of the surface of Mars. The actual image would take hours to develop, and in the meantime, engineers figured out a way to extract a binary from the actual data in order to create a picture. A one to one paint by numbers pastel drawing, with oranges and yellows, and browns - far more representative than the black shrouded developed image that eventually followed.

These are lessons we can take from Mars. Sometimes, we can extend our bodies in the way, so that we are pastel coloring on the surface of Mars. Using data, but then running it through the body, is a remarkable way of keeping up with AI’s Jones’s.

Back to poetics.

Extend your finger tips.
Extend your eyes.
Age your body with time
Marinate in the acids of consequence.
Look at the moon for 100 years
Look at the body for 100 years
Don’t let your eyes fall out.

What blessings God’s presents of struggle bestow.

Thank you for participating in the first edition of How to feel the moon.