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When Carl tells me it’s Rayleigh scattering
that makes blue light, canting off molecular
grit, go slowgait through the airy jell, subdued,
and outlying mountains look swarthy, or wheat
blaze tawny-rose in the 8:00 sun, how I envy
his light touch on Earth’s magnetic bridle.
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken
by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain
everythingness of everything, in cahoots
with the everythingness of everything else.
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Diane Ackerman’s poem “Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)”
Part of her homage to the planets and science, in verse. Ah, how I am fascinated with the everythingness of everything :)
(via Brain Pickings)