[supermassive]
By Declan Fry, Craig Santos Perez
Published 27 June 2023
What sleeps invisibly at the centre of things
determines all we see, as when,
yesterday, a globe of light lay captive
in the camera lens’ reflex.
They say it is only a shadow, never
the thing itself. Performing solemn blind rituals of collapse
with consummate ease, no luminosity escapes: thus it remains dedicated
to invisibility.