if the earth

If the Earth were
only a few feet in diameter
floating a few feet above a field
somewhere, people would come from
everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk
around it marvelling at its big pools of water, its
little pools and the water flowing between the pools.
People would marvel at the bumps on it and the holes
in it and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas
surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people
would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of
the ball and at the creatures in the water. The People would de-
clare it precious because it was the only one and they would
protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be
the greatest wonder known and the people would come
to behold it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
beauty and to wonder how it could be. People
would love it and defend it with their lives
because they would somehow know that
their lives, their own roundness
could be nothing without it.

if the earth were only a few feet in diameter…..