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Reconsider your reasons for travel;
they are likely inadequate.

If you insist upon leaving,
set your affairs in order first.

Carefully calculate coordinates,
accounting for celestial mechanics.

Remember that there is no returning
to the future you once inhabited.

Your appearance will thereafter alter
the timeline at which you arrive.

Many of us spend our lifetimes
searching for the worlds we left.



Mary Soon Lee grew up in London, lives in Pittsburgh, and commits poetry. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and winner of the AnLab Readers' Award, Asimov's Readers' Award, Dwarf Stars Award, Elgin Award, Rhysling Award, and Utopia Award. An illustrated edition of her epic fantasy The Sign of the Dragon was published in 2025. Website: marysoonlee.com.
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