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Diane Ackerman
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Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken

by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain

everythingness of everything, in cahoots

with the everythingness of everything else.

Diane Ackerman’s poems for the planets, which Carl Sagan sent Timothy Leary in prison on this day in 1974.