Earth's End Hypothesis (Poem)

Exotic Blue Planet HD 189733b (Artist's Impression)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (AURA/STScl)

Earth's End Hypothesis

Light years away, a parent star slid
sideways, its 189,733 light particles

blown into alien-deep atmosphere.
Clouds, howling, filled with azure

spots, their true chemical compositions
clues to scientists' tidally locked

observations of still cobalt winds'
effects on our planet. The sun, visible

no more in yellow-orange, passed, pale
complexion deduced the best evidence

that daytime disappeared. Not-thrilled
researchers measured a dip in wavelengths

of radiation, thought small green sodium
drops orbiting nonstop might be indication

of numbers of potentially missing in space.
Data on a surprisingly close explosion

of silicates, never in view, suggested
for the first time there was a world less

bright out there. The climatology's all
weird, social media pronounced. Behind

a system of sand umbrellas that deflect
hot raining glass, Jupiter's doppelganger

tweeted that it was exploring what is
upcoming. In a statement illuminating

no public reaction to Earth's absorption,
it explained that obviously, discovery

of a hue of common habitable domain is,
gravitationally, precariously preliminary.

© 2013 Maureen E. Doallas
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This "found" poem was inspired by the recent article "For the First Time, Astronomers Read Exoplanet's Color" in National Geographic, July 11, 2013. 

Also see the article "Hubble Spots Azure Blue Planet", ESA/Hubble, July 11, 2013.