<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Dark Matter And Dark Energy</span></font><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">My husband says dark matter is a reality<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">not just some theory invented by adolescent computers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">he can prove it exists and is everywhere</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">forming invisible haloes around everything<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and somehow because of gravity<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">holding everything loosely together</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">the way a child wants to escape its parents<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and doesn’t want to—what’s that—<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">we don’t know what it is but we know it is real</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">the way our mothers and fathers fondly<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">angrily followed fixed orbits around<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">each other like mice on a track</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">the way every human and every atom<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">rushes through space wrapped in its invisible<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">halo, this big shadow—that’s dark dark matter</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">sweetheart, while the galaxies<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">in the wealth of their ferocious protective bubbles<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">stare at each other</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">unable to cease<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">proudly<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">receding</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> - Alicia Ostriker </span></font></p><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>