protostar flare
by John Hawkhead
a new beginning
in the sonogram
A protostar is a young star still gathering mass from its parent molecular cloud. The protostellar phase is the earliest the process of stellar evolution.
A sonogram is a picture made by ultrasound waves to show the inside of the human body, including in pregnancy assessment.
Further reading:
‘Protostar’, Wikipedia article – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostar
‘Ultrasound’, Wikipedia article – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound
Author bio:
John Hawkhead (@HawkheadJohn) has been writing haiku and illustrating for over 25 years. His work has been published all over the world and he has won a number of haiku competitions. John’s books of haiku and senryu, ‘Small Shadows’ and ‘Bone Moon’, are now available from Alba Publishing (http://www.albapublishing.com/). Read more of John’s sciku here!