Polar.2019

— magnetic north drifting 55 kilometers per year toward Siberia; the ozone hole over Antarctica still healing; the last stable ice shelf (Milne) collapsing just a year later, in July 2020. polar.2019 is the final frame before the acceleration.

Write a cold, detached monologue from the perspective of an aging . Focus on the sensory details of his retirement in Triple Oak, Montana—the silence of the snow versus the rhythmic mechanical noise of his career. polar.2019