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First Contact

by Ian Whiteley

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First Contact

 

an Inca warrior

with arms outsretched

has his prayers answered

as the shadow

of a great bird of prey

straddles the Nazca plains.

 

primitive intelligence

cannot comprehend

the nature of the beast

and it is hailed

as deity

by the natives.

 

they breed

            exchange fluid

                        intermi...

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Friday 23rd August 2013 8:38 pm

first contact   alien contact   spreading seed   colonisation   gene pool   nazca plains   mixed race parallels

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