soundless vacuum
molten cores
mingled gasses
hurtling shards
black holes
plasma rain
liquid lightning
revolving orbs
in evolving orbit
with beings aboard
attractions — repulsions
magnetized masses
in precarious fragility
inconceivable
ever expanding
frozen dance of chaos
on the tentative edge
of balance
rob kistner © 2020
“Liquid Lighting” — A bit of poetic license, drawn from the fact that recent studies indicate that ice, hail, and semi-frozen water drops known as graupel are essential to the creation of lightning anywhere in the universe such conditions exist
