"bending and stretching
time and space around itself
even light cannot escape

its gravitational field
tenderly embracing stars and dust
only for the black hole to eat them alive"
In Refugia, Shiosaki explores what the learnings from the Webb telescope's first year of operation meant to her while continuing her exploration of archives. The poems bring together ideas about time and trauma, explosions and endurance, and how oberservation through documentation impacts the learner. It is on theme with Shiosaki's previous work, but takes it into a more philosophical direction with startling imagery.

"once you cross the event horizon
you can never go back
not even the light

we can never go back
to a time of not knowing"