Chariklo

By Clifton Snider

Breaking news!
A centaur in the Solar System
–hybrid, nymph–
named after the wife of Chiron,
daughter of Apollo,
now an asteroid-comet
spinning around the sun
between Saturn and Uranus,
first astronomical centaur
found with rings,
two bright, icy rings
swirling in circles
concentric:
a tiny spectacle,
a mandala
invisible to men & women
apart from seven telescopes,
seven chakras,
forming, framing
a cosmic eye.