After Tofu Mantra II
American Typewriter
Ecosphere
Flashback
Green Aquarium
Had I Been Any God of Power
Remembering Roundness
To Ply
When They Go
Ecosphere
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Developed by NASA, the Ecosphere is an enclosed
bioregenerative ecological system in a globe.
Dwarfed beside a great conch shell
with its eternal memory of the sea,
this glass globe seals in a complete world
like our own in exact proportions
of minute brine shrimp, snails, algae,
microbes, pebbles and sea water,
a delicate world in perfect balance
but tepid, colorless and so silent
without tides or birds or wind or fire
without rain or stars or seasons or flowers.
As though already ghosts, these tiny creatures move
hardly at all. Yet what a storm I might shake up
but for the danger of damaging one, even one.
Then how the weight of that death would reverberate.
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bioregenerative ecological system in a globe.
Dwarfed beside a great conch shell
with its eternal memory of the sea,
this glass globe seals in a complete world
like our own in exact proportions
of minute brine shrimp, snails, algae,
microbes, pebbles and sea water,
a delicate world in perfect balance
but tepid, colorless and so silent
without tides or birds or wind or fire
without rain or stars or seasons or flowers.
As though already ghosts, these tiny creatures move
hardly at all. Yet what a storm I might shake up
but for the danger of damaging one, even one.
Then how the weight of that death would reverberate.