Dead Language Astronomy

You could put a close-up
Of dense cuneiform text
Wedged into well-baked mud

Beside a random patch
Of the Hubble Ultra
Deep Field cosmic portrait

Of piled galaxies, flecks
Of superimposed lights
In discrete, clustered beads,

And maybe ask yourself,
Is it crazy to think
Our entire universe

Is a text transcribing
Some unknown symbolic
System by another?