between the sirens and creaking keels,
pines in sunshine and the crescent moon
jagged by clouds
before words, before thought there’s
something, while mind follows
the after-glow of a collision
130-million years ago
which Thursday perturbed
a hair’s breadth
of an electron’s
orbit.
Image: LIGO representation of inspiralling neutron stars, courtesy of LIGO, Caltech. Written for dverse where Grace is hosting and asks us to use ‘creak’ in our quadrilles And here’s that chirp (right at the end).
Peter Frankis writes 
I guess that gravity wave could be viewed as creaking.
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Yes it’s a bit of a stretch I know.
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Love how you describe that echo from a distant past.
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A unique perspective of our history…. that collision birthed the orbit we live today ~
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Thanks Grace.
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From pines in sunshine to celestial collision! Quite a journey you’ve taken us on!
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I always love when poets juxtapose the magnitude of the cosmos with the minute things in life that almost always go by unnoticed. It is awesome to behold both at once.
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Perfection in that title!
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