Fragile
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By Richard Whitehurst I felt frightened when the astronaut Showed me the atmosphere sitting sheer and thin Precariously clinging to the cool face of the world Like an onion’s fragile skin Later a meteorologist scared me as much By descriptions of cyclones that swirled And fed hungrily upon tropical seas…masses of cloud That when seen […]