First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/CXC/NCSU/M.Burkey et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech

White dwarfs pull
At the edges
Of a shadow, unbound

Revealing its trigger
Its motion
Its light echo, background

Marking its power
Of origin
Waiting, to be found.

Credit: NASA / ESA

Magnetar models
Detect and define
A flash –
Of raw power
Refined,
By pure time.