Cosmic perspective
Language: English 
I watched a million motes of dust
meander through a slanting beam of sunlight,
and I thought, "This must be 
how our stars and planets seem,
from what, to us, is outer space;
and on these flecks, half-inches are perceived 
by some dust-atom race 
as distances from star to star."

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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-19
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Word count: 50