Achernar A+B: Eridanus

From under heaven a river rises below Joves throne water born of tearsoblate blue beauty circumstellar ion haloleast spherical of all her sisters brightest of all her brothersdouble doubling back on itselfdeep and longsquat and hotHesiod named her where Jasons giovani found their fleece Be stars bend to other fieldsother pulseslucid circling serpentriver of Paradisemeridian Nile steeped in black Euphratan rageOceanusSihor unreal emptinesscertain absencenon-negligible departures from normal orbitsforbidden emissions leading to excess infraredSecchi saw those furrowed lines when water was all there waswhen water was all there was notwhen water was all there was going to bewhen water was more than it could become lost in a Euxine sea the Heliades shed amber tears for wayward Phaetontheir only brothercast by an angry god into crooked liquidmuscled water Cetus stream where demons embrace naked concubines and Dante lights his brightest torch to illuminate his un-companioned way and steers his great ship to harbor deep inside a multi-foliate white rose