Andrew Leggett



HELSINKI SESTINA

Even in summer, it is difficult to think of cane toads abiding in Helsinki. In this Nordic city, flies are scarce. I can’t imagine an amphibian predator beefing up sufficiently to hibernate through winter, even if the freeze did not …

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Great Notion Road

God is in Heaven. The fish in the tank in the Thai restaurant, Exhibition Street, Melbourne, will never see stars fall. Neil Armstrong rocketed a quarter million miles to the moon, a long trip for a small step. A sign …

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Harold Holt Transmits A Message Home

To the people of Australia especially those scientists and engineers who keep things humming at the big radio telescope near Parkes I send you greetings that I pray you will discern from all the intergalactic advertising that you wrongly read …

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