New Planets

East Kent. 4 June 2017

“NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size,  habitable-zone planets around single star…”

Like oleaginous husband not cheating exactly

But libidinous, in the abstract case

Whose restless, ever-wandering eye

Alights on every pretty passing face

We scour the heavens for a (literal) new earth

In far-off, desolate, godforsaken space

Or sulphurous sphere modelled on hell

Looking for what exactly? Microbial trace?

Some sign I guess, that we are not alone

Intelligent life, to put us in our place

To demonstrate that human consciousness

Is a random act, not the accordance of grace.

Are there not wonders, and portents with it

In this old plot? Treasure without limit.