Larger than a mini-van
the meteor hurled through space
leaving a fiery streak across the sky
breaking into a thousand pieces
remnants littered on the Sierra mountainside.
Artifacts with messages from outer space
hidden in the meteorites
traces of iron, magnesium, nickel and zinc
elements already upon the earth
some will be found but most dissolve
becoming an integral part of the landscape.
A hiker walking through snow
down a hill and there he sees
a chunk of rock like so many others
he picks it up and studies it
then drops it and walks away
never knowing he touched something
from faraway, like a foreigner
speaking an unknown language
the message remains undelivered,
left for another to find
or lost forever upon the hill
a book unread by an illiterate.
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