The Obliquity of the Ecliptic

Here's a poem I wrote a few years back that I can't find saved on my computer, so here's saving it.   Stargazers will recognize the theme of we earthlings thinking that we're all that when a little reading about the universe reminds us that we are, as Carl Sagan said, "a pale blue dot."  Here's a youtube of Sagan speaking true poetry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0&NR=1

The Obliquity of the Ecliptic

by Sally Coyne

The obliquity of the ecliptic

Induces solipsism

As illusions cause a profusion of confusion

About horizons and dimensions

Right ascension and declination,

Illumination of earth's presumptive supposition

Of universal hegemony

While astronomy cautions economy

Of perception

When gazing

In the direction 

Of space.