This chapter examines the ethical valence of two of the most difficult yet important works in this avant gardeavant garde.see also vs. black tradition, Will AlexanderAlexander, Will.’s Exobiology as GoddessAlexander, Will.. (2004) and Refractive AfricaAlexander, Will. (2021). These book-length works approach the issue of ethicsethics. from opposite vantage points, the extraterrestrial and terrestrial, respectively. Refractive AfricaAlexander, Will. presents an entire continent and its writers as exemplary of a moral imperative that has (and can still) guide the future of humanity. Through the mechanism of epigeneticsepigenetics., a context which frames a good deal of AlexanderAlexander, Will.’s work in the 2010s and early 2020s, the survival of the trauma of European colonialism and its generational impact have shaped the peoples of Africa and its DiasporaDiaspora.see also black vs. African American. not primarily with militancy but with other-consciousnessother-consciousness., a sensibility open to what is inescapably other, not just beneath our feet but in our very DNA. In Exobiology as GoddessAlexander, Will.., AlexanderAlexander, Will. incorporates contemporary scientific discourse of the recently created field of astrobiologyastrobiology., raising the possibility that life may have piggybacked to earth on a comet or meteor. Such a possibility, for AlexanderAlexander, Will., makes of earth’s environment an “open system,” where life circulates endlessly throughout the universe in the form of microscopic cysts or spores. “Ecology”—literally, to speak of the home—becomes in AlexanderAlexander, Will.’s poetry “exocologyexocology.”—to speak of what comes from outside. It is this respect for and welcoming of what is other, what comes from elsewhere, that gives AlexanderAlexander, Will.’s cosmic ecology its ethical weight. In the context of the jazzjazz.see also music. of Sun RaSun Ra.aka Herman Poole Blount., legendary for his claims to be an extraterrestrial being, AlexanderAlexander, Will.’s poetry shows that we don’t conserve life on earth only because it is finite and precious for which we are its custodians; in addition, for AlexanderAlexander, Will., we conserve when we recognize life is a gift from elsewhere. The interconnected nature of terrestrial and extraterrestrial life, an intertwined cosmos, demands our responsibilityresponsibility.see also obligation..