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This is an experiment in online literary and artistic collaboration. The title comes from an Iñupiaq word that means "sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst."
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I’ve looked at this essay again and again today; thought of the dumps I’ve wandered and shared your walk with a scientist friend, who had a similar reaction about the strange, haunting and complex beauty of such a place.