35 Like astronomers, we hunched at the edge

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Like astronomers, we hunched at the edge

of the pond’s green prism, angling to see

galaxies of algae, the nebulous flotage

of bubble-flux, frog-jelly, and flocculi.

 

Among the plasms and planets of pollywog,

we scanned the yeasty bottom, agog

for wonders and whatever hurled

the spark that spawned that watery world.