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Perhaps you’ve held this image
in your head since you were young—
the meteor blazing toward earth,
the seismic shock of impact,
a lethal rain of molten rock
falling from the sky, followed by
months or years of dusk and winter.
Dinosaurs—gone. Lush jungles—ash.
Teeming seas—empty. Billions of years
of evolution wiped from the earth.

Only, of course, not. After all,
a paltry 65 million years later,
here we are. I don’t know
what kinds of small and scuttling creatures
found a way to make it through.
Nor do I know how. All I know is that
there was an explosion of new life
the likes of which the world had never seen.
Evolution is the predicate of death.
The sentence is not complete.
The end of the world as you know it
is not the end of the world.

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Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar

Unitarian Universalist Minister and Poet at Lynn Ungar

Lynn is the author of two books of poetry, Blessing the Bread and Bread and Other Miracles. In her free time she trains dogs for competition in obedience, agility and canine musical freestyle (dancing with dogs). She is also an avid singer and contra dancer. Lynn lives in the pacific northwest with her two Australian Shepherds.

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