Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Deeper

Carina Nebula, NASA, ESA, CSA, and STSci photo

Doves repeat

          the same song as yesterday

          they sing it low, low, low


Deer in slender perfection

          enter the cornfield

          flanks disappearing

          in rustle and gleam


Men in combustion

          loud in the moment

          chasing the next thing

          sudden and brief


Everything vanishes

          into the future


Wind rocks the chair




—Upon seeing the first images from the Webb Space Telescope revealing a previously invisible area of star birth. The "peaks" in the image above are themselves seven light-years high.