inspired by the Carrington event
predictable
sunspot
shattering storm
swirling gases of hydrogen and helium
ready to flare
predictable from prominences and filaments
from millions of miles away an aurora borealis is made
beautiful auroras that spanned into the Caribbean
when the sun touched the earth the newspapers said
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dVerse prompt to write a sun quadrille
Adapted from a longer poem
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