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Elementary particle compositions
silent sidereal peals
hailing from space
energy
distributed across fourteen orders of magnitude
or of beauty if we believe it all begins with the sun
a nova, supernova
or a quasar, punctiform
and forms, footprints, equal amounts of matter
and its mirror.
Vertigo
always favors the grace of emptiness, indeed
but it all builds up, don’t you see?
zygote, blastomere, morula
and from this sum, forever
anti-particles, atoms, the positive and negative
everything that exists
that decays
and reproduces
in ever new collisions. Electrons. Positrons.
A stellar nucleosynthesis.