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showing the seams

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| showing the seams |
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I. the sky   stopped     being a distance. it became   a surface. II. the sky silvered,   then sharpened,     folding toward the center       until the horizon         was a seam. the sun multiplied,   reflected     off the walls of a proton       unspooled         into a ceiling. we are inside the glass. III. the floating eyes   did not move.     space moved       through them. they rotated   on axes     without names,       passing through cities         no care for what bends. one moment, a skyscraper is solid.   the next,     the intelligence       winks. not at you—   at the seam     you mistook       for distance. IV. the universe   folds.     collapsing floors,       pressing us         into wallpaper. the predator   is the distance     between stars— it curves around you   an pǝʇɹǝʌuı light cone,     swallowing before       to feed after. it does not arrive.   it is only ever     where things finish. the warheads detonate   into nothing that matters.     the intelligence       has already         been there. V. the mirrors closed.   the eyes     rotated away. time, folded back,   saw us solid     then optional.             the walls                 pressed                     with—