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Prairie Schooner 78.1 (2004) 177


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Against Cosmology

Mark Perlberg

I don't care that the universe is fifteen
billion years old.

I don't care that it contains more dark matter
than the leaping zillions of stars,

that there is more empty space
in the universe than anything.

Move close to me. This is our day on Earth
like any other average miraculous day.




Mark Perlberg was a LANNAN Foundation Writer in Residence in April2002 in Marfa, Texas, and is author of The Impossible Toystore (Louisiana State UP), The Feel of the Sun (Ohio UP), and The Burning Field (William Morrow).

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