
Photo: Russian Academy of Sciences/Ted Stry
cracked terrain beneath hazy, diluted neon green light
— Shannon Stirone
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Photo: Russian Academy of Sciences/Ted Stry
cracked terrain beneath hazy, diluted neon green light
— Shannon Stirone
k
they called while i was at work. they left a minute and a half long voice mail of heavy breathing. the only thing he said was “hello” and “they’re trying to force us to send this video”…. very very creepy and weirded me out
Some say the billowing sails of a ship
Or the bright eyes of the beloved
Are the most beautiful sight in this world
But I hold it is a white Subaru Wagon
Parked and waiting to be peed upon

portrait of the author

A rippling of the space-time fabric
In a split second of frenzy ringing
The universe like a bell
More? Hmmm? More?
Disappearing into gravitational
Waves of agitation

Sarah Ortbal
Original photo…Wes Frazer for The New York Times

This is where we are
I believe we’ve achieved
The outer limit

Another eight or so suns’ worth of mass and energy disappeared into gravitational waves, ripples of the space-time fabric, in a split-second of cosmic frenzy, ringing the universe like a bell… — Dennis Overbye
image credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration

Watching had the indescribably
Intense feeling of being in the
Presence of an event