Silver sky at dawn
Hammered on the fierce anvil
Of a stormy night
by Kate Rauner
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A humongously enlarged museum model, image by Janine and Jim Eden
What’s the toughest animal,
A lion or a bear?
Or you and me with our dominion
Over others’ prayers?
What tolerates the cosmic rays,
Curled in a dried-out ball,
What can survive a vacuum
Or hottest heat
or coldest cold?
The microscopic tardigrade
Looks like a critter should,
With feet and head and funny face,
It’s kinda cute and good.
In half a billion years evolved
A thousand speciations
To beat the competition
And earn
our exclamations.
Who will be here
to greet the gods
As final days of Earth unfold?
It won’t be me,
it won’t be you.
The tardigrade
will fill that role.
by Kate Rauner
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There are articles every now and then about the tardigrade, a wee beastie worth contemplating.
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Like a ghost I move
Carried on my silent paws
See, hear, smell the prey
by Kate Rauner
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Smoke from summer fires
Flows thick down dry arroyos
Ghost of rivers lost
by Kate Rauner
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Binary stars are seldom identical
Sol,
A main sequence star
Out in a spiral arm,
Light from your nearest brethren
Falls dimly in your realm.
Bits of rock,
Scraps of gas,
Hydrogen and stone,
Remnants of your origin,
But otherwise
Alone.
It seems that in
Your early phase,
Four billion years ago,
You would have spun a coiling dance
With a twin aglow.
Half such pairs,
Such triples,
More,
Cling and orbit tight,
But others,
Looping, twisting far,
Are lost into the night.
Where does your mate,
Your other half,
reside?
That none can say.
Your splendid self looks down on Earth
The only star
That lights our day.
by Kate Rauner
About 40% of stars have stellar partners, so being alone is not unusual.
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But recent studies indicate that all stars may have been born with companions. Sol may have been paired once, but the fancifully named Nemesis is far away, if it ever existed, “out there mingling with other stars in the region of the Milky Way Galaxy we call home.” newsledge
Don’t feel sorry for our Sun. Only you and I can feel loneliness.
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In my yard
Agave flowers
Lift their blooms above the trees
Reaching for the sun
by Kate Rauner
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Never
are you alone,
You’re like a little world
Where flocks of fungi, viruses,
And bacteria lay curled.
No matter what you think of them
They’ll always live with you,
Will pay their rent with vitamins
And help digest your food.
Your levels of blood sugar
Depend on what you’re eating,
Also on microbes that you host,
Essential to well-being.
The zoo that you contain
Is practically unique,
So it’s your inner swirling mob
That says what’s best to eat
By Kate Rauner
As I’ve rhymed before, It can be surprising to learn we human beings are part of nature whether we like it or not – host to a world of critters – some bad but lots good. Thanks to Popular Science for their article on the glycemic response to white and wheat breads, and especially for pointing out that one study should never change what you eat.
What the study does suggest, however, is that if you are diabetic or pre-diabetic and notice that certain nutrient-rich foods causes your sugar levels to spike, you might be better off avoiding them and finding other, also nutrient-rich foods, that don’t send your sugar levels soaring.”
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