out where?

other than here, on this spinning  
six sextillion tons to which we are
tenuously tethered

are there big eyed,
big brained air walkers,
silent talkers, beaming
among the billions and billions
of suns and deliriously dense
dark matter?

I think not, though

we

are not alone

if by chance
we were to encounter the
“non us”  
I suspect it would be like a dog
trying to bark at a Higgs Boson

or perhaps a Higgs Boson
trying to bark at a dog