Earth Author:Marie C. Farca Myopic planet. Blue ocean-eyed with foreign objects slicing across its cornea. Its rivers its streams of tears in reverse, pouring into its eyes, its marine life its rods and cones. The ocean floor the blinded retina. Vulnerable planet. Its rocks its skeletons. Its soil its flesh. Its plains the hollows in its cheeks, wearing its mountain... more »s like sets of teeth. Viable planet? Perhaps. A piece of starry-eyed poetic whimsey? Rather an astronaut explorer's description of the strange planet on which he is about to be marooned. And as this ironic tale of an all too possible future makes clear, of the many startling discoveries that await him on that mysterious terrain, the most startling of all is that the planet's name is EARTH.« less