Supernova

[Wjames]

(From my first NaPM experience -- thanks for the whole thing)

Supernova

Today, my navel outshines me,
for today, it is a dying star
huffing its desperate last breath. I don't like the double "today" either.

The immense pressure of gravity's hands
ever-squeezing its fiery core
at last compounds its every facet Do you need at last?
into a heavy hole in time. Your belly button is a heavy hole in time?

Its shell of gas and light erupts
into a splendid rainbow of dust, I like the dust/erupts incidental.
of carbon and oxygen and iron and nitrogen,
of water and earth and wind and flame, do you need all the ands?
of all the material elements.

And this great cloud of stardust scatters
beyond the world of my humble body,
beyond the womb of mother earth,
beyond the weirs across the heavens,
to create a brilliant legacy for its father
by filling the gaps in the puzzle of life. This stanza sounds nice, but I don't think I can decipher what you're trying to communicate.

Maybe I'm ignorant in my knowledge of belly buttons, but I can't understand how they connect to a supernova. Cutting the umbilical cord or something? You did have some nice images, but I couldn't form a coherent idea from it all.