Over a nautical chart, a lyrical chant traces a speaker’s cosmic solitude and visionary self-recognition, identifying with a lone star amid sea, sky, urban decay, and deep time. Beginning with the claim that “everything reveals itself / in the lonesomeness of a star,” it moves through vespers, a sinking sky, a “crumbling city,” and a solitary sail crossing the aeons before arriving at an abyssal but affirmative vision of the self as both “this body’s master key” and a star “shining” within a larger field of change. Above the poem, a purple photomontage of an infant-like figure appears suspended beneath an image resembling the earth or moon, while a thick hand-lettered green border repeats words including “maritime,” “consciousness,” “futures,” “mysteries,” “oceans,” “space,” “dreams,” “change,” and “wind.” Together, the cartography, ecological imagery, mystical language, and San Francisco countercultural typography anticipate the bioregional sensibility later associated with Planet Drum.
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