Humanity is headed to Mars. This one brave act changes everything, lending a duality to our daydreams, de-familiarizing our night gazes up into the dark with our children, newly shading our mistaken beliefs on the simple color red. Those first arriving will shoulder the scientific burdens, preparing the paths of pain, experimenting in physics, geology, engineering, health, AI, robotics. But the humanities must follow on, for we will not simply visit Mars, we are going there to live, to die. To remain will mean to thrive in a world of the word. The ground, the rocks of the planet, will demand a poetry of their own, and every art, as quickly as the first imprint of a toe pressing the soil. The planet waits for new red words. So very patiently.

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Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian writer, artist, educator, and reality actor, hailing from Johnson City, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Karin. His poetry and fiction is in over 200 journals and anthologies, including Spillway, Poetry South, Illuminations Literary Magazine, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Appalachian Journal. Find his stories and non-fiction in past issues of Still: The Journal, Longridge Review, Pikeville Review, and Story and Grit. His MFA is earned from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Visit his website at: www.larrydthacker.com or on Facebook at: thackalachia or on Insta at: larryunsupervised

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