#star patterns

The Helix Cosmic

The genes of the cosmos weave through time and space, splitting and recombining in an endless evolutionary boil.

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by taking the world around

and knitting it into a sweater,

a sweater spun from the wool of starry heavens,

its pointed and dotted pattern projecting

englowing a hazy and worldly shape.

in wearing this sweater, a mold is taken

of which the world is thereafter cast

everything taken inward, and only moving forward

in a clamorous and confounded fashion

the floundering senses never seem to catch a break.

so attention is entranced in these fraying loose-ends

of the starry sweater's pattern.

so many frayed flaws and mistakes in our manner

what wasn't yet known!

for it was not anything that was thought about too much

the sky of which the pattern was taken, it turns out

was rather dully lit, wasn't a thing to know of it.

it was without bright blemishes, perhaps

a few sad scintillating spots each never quite the same.

but to the whole of it—which was mostly all of it—

was entirely unknown.

as the sweater frays, so too did the veil it wrought.

patches to the elbows, flames to the frays?

or will another spool be spun

Galactic Formation RL-Z-U47 - AKA "Mirkov's Maelstrom"

Initially discovered in 1952 by Dr. Ivan Mirkov of the Moscow Deep-Space Observation Unit 4, RL-Z-U47 has baffled the scientific community for 3/4ths of a century.

While theories vary, NASA would like to assure everyone that RL-Z-U47 is not looking at us, certainly not at you in particular. It's ridiculous to think that a sixteen parsec wide structure with a highly 'DNA adjacent' spectrogram reading would be interested in our tiny world, even if it wasn't obviously just a big cloud of bismuth dust. Which it is.

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