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Friday, July 02, 2004

From Prose to Poetry: UD Makes A Poem
Out of Phrases Taken From
An Article in Today's New York Times


MOONLET NIGHT


A tripod in space
Makes a circuit of Saturn,
Its rings of water ice,
Its disks of interstellar matter.

Beyond the planet's cloud top,
Repeated passages of unseen moons,
And shepherd moonlets, and hints of smaller moonlets,
In rings of ice and rock.

Signature of ring chemistry:
Particle winds of interplanetary space.
Posted at: 7/02/2004 12:03:00 PM