Carl Sagan and I Each Consider the Nature of the Universe

Word Sculpture

Pollywog Pond

The rich and fertile muck
of pond and roadside ditch
emitting an ancient visible smell

Memories in pungent spores
this airborne residue of millennia
as we inhale the futures of fairy shrimp
all golden and green and brown

as we breathe the powdered bones of our ancestors

G.J.G. 6/21/90