{"id":7588,"date":"2025-10-31T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:06:20","slug":"a-poem-for-dark-matter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/31\/a-poem-for-dark-matter-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem for Dark Matter Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A poem for <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/tag\/darkmatterday\/\">#DarkMatterDay<\/a>, inspired by both the mystery and the <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/tag\/mastoprompt\/\">#MastoPrompt<\/a> effort on open social federated media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Have everything\/Be everything<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It would have everything.<br>It would be everything.<br>It would sing its own praises,<br>Raise its voice to the heavens:<br>&#8220;I am all that is. I have all that is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.cooleysekula.net\/tags\/DarkMatter\">Dark Matter<\/a> eyed the <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.cooleysekula.net\/tags\/avarice\">#avarice<\/a><br>of normal matter: entranced<br>by its self-glow, no sight<br>for unseen things, hidden cords;<br>only gathering, gobbling a hoard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The great halo &#8212; its long work slow,<br>the curve of space its only hands &#8212;<br>sighed and settled in the web<br>of unseen strands that pull all things;<br>in silence it sings and weaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem for #DarkMatterDay, inspired by both the mystery and the #MastoPrompt effort on open social federated media. Have everything\/Be everything It would have everything.It would be everything.It would sing its own praises,Raise its voice to the heavens:&#8220;I am all that is. I have all that is.&#8221; Dark Matter eyed the #avariceof normal matter: entrancedby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[375,374,77,372,373],"class_list":{"0":"post-7588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-writing","8":"tag-avarice","9":"tag-avariceof","10":"tag-darkmatter","11":"tag-darkmatterday","12":"tag-mastoprompt","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_1929.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7589,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions\/7589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}