{<div class='head'><img style='width:40%;padding:10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; ' src='title.png'><br>A eulogy in honour of growing skies and shrinking possibility<br> by Cynan-Juniper Orton<br><br><img <img style=' margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; ' src='down.png'><br><br> </div> <div class="layout"> <div><img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='UI/top left.png'></div> <div class='topbar'></div> <div><img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='UI/top right.png'></div> <div class='leftbar'></div> <div> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='header.png'> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='flowers1.png'> <p>I clutch my cane atop the cresting hill. Inhale fog, dew, and cloud. I gaze at countless sublime peaks and sigh in awe. Skin fades. Edges blur. I am lost in horizons bigger than we ever imagined.</p>\ <p>The biggest there's ever been that'll never be as big again.</p>\ <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='flowers2.png'> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='meadow.png'> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='flowers3.png'> <p>I watch them graze on a sheet of grass. Grass that’s less than wafer thin, less than paper or plastic film. Lacking in all depth bar the occasional jaunty angle. </p> <p>On the horizon I can see flowers. Flecks sprouting up from the terminal ground. Beyond it is nothing. A black and starless void. </p> <p>The cows, indifferent, cross between. </p> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='beat.png'> <p>What more could be out there, beyond this diminished point of view? </p> <p>How much must I not know if the edges of my sight are dwarfed by the fence of a field? </p><br><br> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='coast.png'> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='flowers5.png'> <p>They point the camera at a mountain and tell me I can climb it. I tick off plants, birds, and other collectibles in a cold glow of achievement. </p> <p>I plan my next hike with a satellite precision. Selecting my next view like a car checking streets. Making sure that the vantage has the vastness necessary to lose myself utterly. </p> <p>Looking hard for the seams in the sky I find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. </p> <br><br><br> <img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='flowers6.png'> <p>These worlds never used to feel so small. </p> <img style='width:90%;' src='footer.png'><img style='width:100%;float:center;bottom: 0px;right: 0px;position: absolute;' src='footer.png'></div> <div class='rightbar'></div> <div><img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='UI/bot left.png'></div> <div class='botbar'></div> <div><img style='width:100%;float:center;' src='UI/bot right.png'></div> </div>} <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <img src='bow.png'> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>