Altered | Photograph: NRAO, AUI, NSFS

Spectral prismic from the cataclysmic:
the blast emits more energy in an instant
than the lifetime sun will shed in eons—
remnants strewn like underwater fireworks.

Imploding explosion: a collapsing core
and expanding element shells burning
as levels of hell in a devilish star,
until an iron wall refuses to fall.
Then a shockwave rolls from the fiery heart.

*[ WSB ]_.