BRIGHT STAR: NGC 6357 NEBULA Bright Star wrapped round about by diaphanous billowing veils deep purple and amber illumined into lavender     pale yellow         and gold stretching light-years through space and time Brilliant Blue-White Star cocooned in a translucent cavern where fanciful cave animals cavort— bison     mammoth         wolf And rising high above the sheltering cave a vast pinnacle spire a bear's-head pinnacle spire with massive turtle descending and great bird perching amidst far-flung eddies and swirls of color in delicate infinitely-varying shades and textures sprinkled here and there with stars And suddenly as perspective expands upward the pinnacle spire is seen to be pointing to a cluster of exquisitely brilliant stars free of the veil scintillating their brilliance against the profound night-dark deep-space sky Valerie Kadium Los Angeles, 8-22-2011

A Massive Star in NGC 6357