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Riding Alongside the Moon

June 22, 2022 cate clother

Image by Stefan Riedl

Eva Deitch

It’s an overnight flight,

out my window a full moon floats on the horizon

Up there, 30,000 feet, I convince myself

the moon is a destination for anyone

A somewhere to buy a ticket to

after catching wanderlust from an advertisement on the cramped subway.

It reads “No personal space?, how about outer space!?”

I imagine:

the pilot come on the PA

before take off

announcing our travel time

238,900 miles, over three days.

A murmur rolls over the cabin

as passengers turn to their neighbor to discuss itinerary.

A visit to the lunar flag assembly, a must,

Tethered hike down into the Tycho Crater, for the more adventurous,

A scheduled “mooning” back towards to earth, followed by a group photo.

The moon’s incessant light beaming through

the cabin brings me back to the reality of my window seat

I close my shade

for the sleeping passenger next to me

who with eyes closed

and without turning says

“Sometimes I forget the moon doesn’t shine on it’s own”

 

Eva Deitch

Eva Deitch lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York. She graduated with a degree in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and is a 2018 alumni of the Documentary and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Deitch photographs for a variety of editorial clients, art institutions and environmental non-profits. Her personal work explores place as both a physical and psychological space. She uses traveling, contemplation, writing, visual and audio documentation as tools to engage with both tangible and existential experiences of life.

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