Cosmic Crokinole

Cosmic Crokinole

Played with uncounted planets for pieces
Caroming into each other--crashing and spinning
Mercury stripped of its outer layers and Venus slowed in her tracks
Two more smash, meld, melt and break apart--Earth and the moon endlessly circling
Mars reshaped, an unknown smashed to rubble, now just an asteroid belt
A solid giant impacts Jupiter and is swallowed whole,
Saturn eats smaller pieces, Neptune gains a moon
Uranus is tipped on its axis, blue ring at a jaunty angle
Little Pluto runs its elliptical orbit, perhaps seeking one last shot
Of the countless pieces only nine remain
Circling the centre waiting for the next round.