Stare too long and like an optical illusion
the diffracted light hums with intensity.
The edges of its diadem fray like candlelight.
They could not do it with their aureoles of gold leaf.
It had to be plasma spinning billions of kilometers
in as little time as it takes you to visit your parents.
From high atop the mountains
of Arizona and Atacama and Antarctica,
our monasteries trained their eyes upon it
our monks carried it in the heavy lanterns
of hard drives to the halls of Boston and Bonn
and there summoned a new image of reality.
In the center lies its shadow with no Arago spot.
It is denser than 6.5 billion of our Suns. It is
as large as the orbit of our farthest planet.
It knows light intimately, before it leaves.
It carries light down with it into its purpose.
It bends my thoughts even at this distance.
I cannot comprehend its existence.
Even seeing it now, for the first time, I still
cannot conceive of the nothing that is
somewhere at the center of its darkness.
The end of all our practical knowledge.
It is darkness pinned to darkness.
R. Charboneau
Robert Charboneau. 
Fascinating!
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Thank you! I appreciate the kind word!
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