... never seen one fly, but sometimes they perch on the hand. Mist is when the sky is tired of flight and rests its soft machine on ground: Then the world is dim and bookish like engravings under tissue paper. Rain is when the earth is televison. It has the property of making colours darker. Model T is a room with the lock inside - a key ... take for granted. The non-metrical form continues its opposing theme in the second stanza "they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain." The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metap...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... never seen one fly, but sometimes they perch on the hand. Mist is when the sky is tired of flight and rests its soft machine on ground: Then the world is dim and bookish like engravings under tissue paper. Rain is when the earth is televison. It has the property of making colours darker. Model T is a room with the lock inside - a key ... take for granted. The non-metrical form continues its opposing theme in the second stanza "they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain." The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metap...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Lush grass under his feet. Azure skies overhead. Walking in the silence of nature was calming, he found. There was a stream up ahead. He could hear it bubbling and it came into view. ... . This was Isabella. She was his personal assistant and saving grace. Her jet black hair was pulled back into a tight bun and her amber eyes were looking down at something, notes probably, and she was reading them off to him. "Did you hear me sir?" she asked and he shook his head, to break himself from his thoughts. "I"m sorry Bella, what ... was standing next to her and the captain cleared his throat before...

• Word Count: 1426
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School