Day: July 8, 2024

The year the Church exploded East
from West, one heavenly body
collapsed, majestically. A daystar blazing
like a Venus, now milky veiled and nebulous.
We see it there, between Taurean horns
a mighty, pulsing heart, its neutron core
still polarising crab-like, particles of ore

• The Great Schism July 1054
• Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With Webb telescope

Just 44 words for Merril’s Quadrille prompt: Feeling Crabby