Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann

Author:Matthew Olzmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2016-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

It means when I speak of beauty and you speak

of beauty, we are not speaking

about the same thing. And we are not friends.

ASTRONOMERS LOCATE A NEW PLANET

Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline,

so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.

—Reuters, 8/25/2011

Like the universe’s largest engagement ring, it twirls

and sparkles its way through infinity.

The citizens of the new world know about luxury.

They can live for a thousand years.

Their hearts are little clocks

with silver pendulums pulsing inside.

Eyes like onyx, teeth like pearl.

But it’s not always easy. They know hunger.

They starve. A field made of diamond

is impossible to plow; shovels crumble and fold

like paper animals. So frequent is famine,

that when two people get married,

one gives the other a locket filled with dirt.

That’s the rare thing, the treasured thing, there.

It takes decades to save for,

but the ground beneath them glows,

and people find a way.

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