Spark and Perl go looking
This one is smaller still. It must be a cloud of dust.
Rock, like its brother.
…Rock, then. Small enough to run round before breakfast.
And still something to run ON.
Grey, dusty, and quite real.
No — it is tiny and far too faint.
Draw a Martian evening instead, with two moons going opposite ways.
From nowhere on Earth.
Where the Earth is clear, it climbs high in the sky. The darker it gets, the lower it stays. Where it is black, it never comes up. No shading at all: it does not matter where you live.
Could you stand on a planet or moon?Which one does not belong?