Supernova Poem by Don Pearson

I wrote this just after completing a course in mosaics run by Michelle. I had finished it when I discovered that one of her pieces, exhibited at the Devon Craft Guild, is entitled 'Supernova.'

Notes
A supernova results in a black hole, whose gravitational pull is so strong that even light cannot escape.

Living creatures - see Revelation, so includes an apocalyptic meaning.

Time's arrow - concept of one way flow or irreversibility of time. Phrase coined in 1927 by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington.

Moony has the senses both of moonlit and dreamy.

The coelacanth was known from fossils but thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was found in 1938.
In the first versions the coelacanth was a tuatara, replaced for rhythmic reasons and because hardly anyone outside NZ has heard of it. It may be that hardly anyone has heard of a coelacanth either.