Rare Earth

Vandal Poem of the Day: April 15, 2020

 by Elizabeth Arnold

The biophysicists who think there’s little chance
that life (advanced, that is) exists

anywhere other than on Earth

say what I felt last night before I read their book,
in which they state

we’re right against it, the abyss

—a word whose tone had killed it for me
until this.
from CivilizationFind more by Elizabeth Arnold at the library
Copyright © 2006 Elizabeth Arnold

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Published in Elizabeth Arnold Poems

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