Basaltic crunch
Hiss of valves
Sister starts to spill her secrets.
Shukra's greenhouse poisoned
acrid and arid.
Please teach us
how to maintain
our own.
Earth science is
planetary science.
Magellan and early mariners
blazed a trail
before they got distracted,
and thought the
wealth
of new worlds
only lay in gold and silver.
But a patient people
will find the true riches
of further Indies,
and gems assayed
from Lakshmi Planum.
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