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class="of he">CW: grief, death of parent, miscarriage, infertility, hospitals</strong></p><p id="74df" class="pw-post-body-paragraph od oe hd of b hx og oh oi ia oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy gw bk">The 1977 educational film <em class="oz">Powers of Ten </em>begins with an aerial view of a couple picnicking in the park-a strange perspective—as if we were giants. Over the next five minutes, the video zooms out at the rate of one power of ten every ten seconds. We see the park framing the picnic blanket, the city surrounding the park, eventually the North American continent.</p><p id="46d3" class="pw-post-body-paragraph od oe hd of b hx og oh oi ia oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy gw bk">We see our solar system, then our galaxy, until we are 100 million light years away. The video rewinds at an increasing speed, then slows, and begins zooming in to the flakes of skin on the man’s hand, the structure of his cells, to the very quarks inside a proton.</p><p id="f6ba" class="pw-post-body-paragraph od oe hd of b hx og oh oi ia oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy gw bk">This is what reading Laura Bylenok’s <em class="oz">Living Room </em>feels like—becoming acutely aware of our bodies as containers for the vast cellular system mirroring the universe: “I’ve been feeling mitochondrial. / After all, a cell is also a room // with organs, furniture, pictures on the wall.” We were once a single cell ourselves, and in the context of this universe, we are only dust.</p><p id="8a9c" class="pw-post-body-paragraph od oe hd of b hx og oh oi ia oj ok ol om on oo op oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy gw bk">To Bylenok, deep time is present in the waiting room of a hospital, just as it…</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article></div><div 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