520 BC
Ethereal stargazer
Postulating a rigid sky
Twilight's cosmological cinders
Stars fixed like grommets
To a crystal hemisphere
Circling the flat earth
In speckled pageantry
Greek thought
A celebrated genius
Clad in philosophical armor
Denying planetary rotation
A light-year away from infinity
An inch away from obscurity
Self-assured
With the knowledge
That all of his treatises
Were sound
