The Aftermath Poem by Harley White

The poem is in the form of a rondeau… Some sources of inspiration were the following… Vela Pulsar (Wikipedia) … A Fab Five: New Images with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory… Vela Pulsar with video (NASA) … The emissions of Vela and the pulsar PSR B0329+54 were converted into audible sound by French composer Gérard Grisey and used in the piece Le noir de l'étoile (1989-90) … Vela Pulsar: By combining data from NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE, shown in light blue) , Chandra (purple) , and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (yellow) , researchers are probing Vela, the aftermath of a star that collapsed and exploded and now sends a remarkable storm of particles and energy into space. IXPE shows the average orientation of the X-rays with respect to the jet in this image.