{"id":627,"date":"2012-09-10T07:56:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2012-07-07T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T14:58:12","slug":"assumptions-of-precedence-by-elizabeth-barrette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Assumptions of Precedence, by Elizabeth Barrette"},"content":{"rendered":"
The red-tailed hawk <\/span><\/div>\n
searches the air for thermals,<\/span><\/div>\n
its pinions fingering the alien sky.<\/span><\/div>\n
It shoulders its way past pink clouds<\/span><\/div>\n
and soars in lazy spirals<\/span><\/div>\n
above the thorny blue plain.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
The scientists watch earnestly,<\/span><\/div>\n
their eyes pressed to binoculars,<\/span><\/div>\n
hands tapping at keyboards.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
No motion of prey is visible<\/span><\/div>\n
through the dense foliage.<\/span><\/div>\n
A glint of water in the distance<\/span><\/div>\n
beckons with the promise of fish.<\/span><\/div>\n
The hawk banks toward it,<\/span><\/div>\n
talons flexing.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
The water explodes as a catapult fish<\/span><\/div>\n
launches its jaws skyward, <\/span><\/div>\n
trailing a long intestine.<\/span><\/div>\n
Serrated teeth snap closed<\/span><\/div>\n
and the catapult fish reels in its mouthful<\/span><\/div>\n
of struggling prey.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
The scientists sigh,<\/span><\/div>\n
cross “hawk” off the long list,<\/span><\/div>\n
and wish again that terraforming<\/span><\/div>\n
was not so full of assumptions.<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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