Before it had a name… a distant permanent storm… a 4.5 billion year old nuclear war… a creation of condensed interstellar dust… a collapse… the destruction of four million tons of matter every second… sending itself… wriggling through space… to your face… the morning light…

the light wriggles in waves towards Earth until it reaches the chlorophyll in a plant… the retina of an eye… the silver halide crystals in film… the tip of your nose… upper lip… chin… think of the collision of atoms… the constant colliding… the sound of the Sun… from a distance it hums and vibrates… closer… it explodes flamboyantly… unembarrassed… the setting off of electric reactions disrupting the magnetic field…