Sheen of glossamer paints
cleft Triton’s scorried notions
where dinnertime debates
climbed tunes forgotten oceans
Lycurgus spanned Neptune’s rhymes
of ancient mariner potions
cures for bloody skies
inventions cross benthic quotients
Starships raged against dying of light
magnetic fields fired aft night
that blue blue orb was larger in sight
solitary, far Earth so faint, so right.
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