ONE DAY IN THE SCIENCE NEWS
by Michael G. Smith
I woke to ice mountains
on Pluto, it’s moon Charon
home to Mordor, a polar
expanse darker than any
I have tumbled into
and worked my way through.
And now at the day’s other
end, Zhenyuan’s Dragon
appears, the soft feathers
of its fossilized remains
bound in 125-million yearold Chinese limestone
touchingly close
to the down in the pillow
I will soon lay
my tired head on.
What might I wake to,
fathomed worlds after
fathomed worlds
delivered to my laptop
quicker than any human
could possibly keep up
with? Only that
illiterate Hui-neng
was able to put aside
here and there
as he turned
and turned the millstone
grinding the monastery’s
dinner rice.
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