In the last hour I saw it
Like a lid sliding across the sky
The great face that wrought our doom
Highlighted in the sudden twilight
Eyes like moons and ears folded back
Vast lips in an Australia-sized pucker
Pressing through stratosphere, displacing clouds
And Earth groaned, tugged by alien gravity 
And turned to meet it
As the titanic mouth bent to drink
Tidal waves from the impact sucked back in
By that enormous draft
Hurricanes circling around the lips like smoke rings
And the coastlines growing as the ocean shrank
Fish and boats tossing in the slime 
At the bottom of the largest cup on Earth
And when its thirst was slaked--

[i]Have you ever eaten a morning-picked apple[/i]
[i]And sucked off the dew before biting it?[/i]