Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Stellar Retrodictions, 1 of 2



Stellar Retrodictions
By Sumadastron the Time-Lost

1:
Alchemic furnace, far and bright
Affixed betwixt collapse and blast;
A beacon shining in the night
Until its heart burns out at last.

2:
Four water-making motes shall meet
To make a mote of lesser mass
And thus release a burst of heat
To hold aloft an orb of gas.

3:
The small and dim burn in the sky
A million million years afire;
The middle sooner bloat, then die;
The big by blast, so vast, expire.

4:
Too light to light the carbon way
Its heart grown small and hot and old
Its outer layers blow away
Evaporating to a coal.

5:
Its burnt-out core can fuse no more
For iron’s fire cools the place;
It falls, and with alchemic roar
The rest blasts outward into space.

6:
A stellar coal, self-immolate;
Why doesn’t it give up the ghost?
Its one support for its own weight;
The pressure of difference of motes.

7:
A smaller cinder, lower down;
Each teaspoon has a mountain’s mass;
An atom’s heart, as big as town;
An orb’s penultimate collapse.

8:
Two massive cinders in the night
In spiral dance around they race
Until they smash and blast out light
And shake the very shape of space.

9:
By second messenger afar
We hear a crash! The heavens ring!
O fatal chirp of fallen stars!
From stellar smash, alchemic bling!

10:
A star as dark as night
Where space and time both bend
With no escape for light
And all known law must end.


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