roiling sky

What do we know about this piece?

We know it is an excerpt from “The Conversation.”

We know it has two speakers, a male and a female.

We know it is set in contemporary times.

We know that the characters are speaking informally, colloquially, at times crudely. And they know a thing or two about science, particularly astronomy.

We are not quite sure whether to take them seriously.

We are not sure whose side we are on.

There are a few images that are striking:

there is a sky which is roiling with a thousands of colors never seen before —poisongreen, hellishred, stinkingpurple, venomeorange.

Mars could be covered with a nice surface, perhaps copper — to contrast with the chromed moon.

Kenneth Goldsmith is known as a Conceptual Poet, and has a background in visual arts.

What do I wonder?

I wonder about “The Conversation.” Is this excerpt the only part that seems to fit in Ecopoetics? or is the whole piece on this topic? (Does it have a topic?)

I wonder if it is important to connect to a piece emotionally.

I wonder if human are infinitely adaptable to distortions of their natural environment, or if there is a limit. What is the nature of that limit? (I think we need the oceans.)

I wonder about the place of dystopias (or utopias) in ecopoetics.