Poetry by Sam Jowett

X Y Star (Embrace the Supernova)
 
X Y star burns hyper-ripe fluorescence
luminosity volcanic
overbearing overloud
in its binary system
appearance taking precedence
 
X Y star churns shell upon shell
colour-drenched electric blue                                    (never ever pink)
emitting norms
gushing traits
not designed
to stop                                                                                 (and cry)
just infinite plasma expansion
another layer, another layer, another layer
until scarlet swollen
 
X Y star core blisters
fusion thirsty
I don’t create
simply emit
and drench skin-scorched                              
in the blaze                                                                          (and burn and burn and burn)
 
X Y star can only fuse
what "ought" to be fused
          lest the wrong
element                                                                               (I dare)
                               be added
           in the nuclear soup
and the
           stellar
                                         becomes un-stellar
and the stable
                                         un-stabilizes
 
but why fear the
                                   
                                         Supernova
 
Glow molten
welcome detonation
 
Disco blaze shimmer
embrace ejection
 
Shell rocketing, plasma shattering
self-service shredding, myself unpeeling
core reclaiming
 
Star rebuilding.

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Sam Jowett is a queer writer and law student currently living in Toronto. His fiction can be found in Crab Fat Magazine, Occulum, formercactus, Mad Scientist Journal, orbiting around the planet Saturn, in honey badger dens (It is advised that you do not go searching for the last two), and other places. Follow Sam’s devil dealing escapades on Twitter @samuel_jowett.