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Rhythms
This is an image of the center of our galaxy taken by NASA's Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope.
rhythms
cicadas’ lazy sizzles mumble dreamily
and incandescence twists the sultry air
dust devils spin siliceous revelry
rocks pyrolize beneath the solar glare.
‘tis fusion fuels the sun’s protean cauldrons
where nuclei merge to mutate elements
ejecting excess energy as photons
which drench us in igneous radiance
but whence was forged our planet’s interior?
the alchemy of sol can make but air.
some huge primeval nova spewed its core
a gravid psychle spawned our earthenware.
we mine the bones of ancient, giant stars
we’re naught but stardust, cosmic avatars.
cicadas’ lazy sizzles mumble dreamily
and incandescence twists the sultry air
dust devils spin siliceous revelry
rocks pyrolize beneath the solar glare.
‘tis fusion fuels the sun’s protean cauldrons
where nuclei merge to mutate elements
ejecting excess energy as photons
which drench us in igneous radiance
but whence was forged our planet’s interior?
the alchemy of sol can make but air.
some huge primeval nova spewed its core
a gravid psychle spawned our earthenware.
we mine the bones of ancient, giant stars
we’re naught but stardust, cosmic avatars.
So far we have cast our eyes outward, but we are bound to earth.
From distant time a giant star created the elements which make life possible and some fragments fell into orbit around our sun. Once earth reached the right temperature, an atmosphere formed and the process we call life became possible.
We take the conditions that surround us for granted, but geology tells us that it took billions of years for this star fragment to create the nursery that produced life.
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