The Professor at His Desk.(Poem)

 
THE PROFESSOR AT HIS DESK 
 
   I've been reading in the London Review of Books 
   a review of Martin Rees's Before the Beginning 
   and Lee Smolin's The Life of the Cosmos. 
   Full of dark matter, it is heavy going. 
 
   Dark matter makes up ninety percent of the galaxy, 
   and dark matter holds our universe together; 
   although made up of stuff we cannot see, 
   like reading between the lines we know it's ...