First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/UChicago

Wind worn glides
Of flowing try
Turning here,
To there, a gleam –
Long since sought
To there, a stream

Sailing empty
Through wondering sky
To subtle jetties,
Of methane air –
Riding through
Till no, till there

Notions of what
Or what may why
Under the cracked,
And deepening pool –
Meandering true
So dark, and cool

A winded wrinkle
Wrankle awry
Under a surface
Of wind swept time –
Spreads, its out
As a ragged, old sign.

Riverbeds >>

 

Hat tip: Robert Lewis Stevenson “Looking-Glass River”

Credit: Nasa / Cal-Tech / Univ. of Arizona

Marching through the ridges
Riding down their sides
Directs a retro guidance
Into a port, tact, glide.

Alluvial >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The darkness, of white
Tops sheathed, in black bright
Streak –
Through the shadows, to break free
And take flight.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Vapors of dioxide
Released through splice
Reveal –
Their residual
In resplendent, dark ice.

Credit: ESA, Hubble, R. Sahai (JPL), NASA

Defined by light
A sense, refined
A spectacular vision
Through a form –
Of mind.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Baseline allowances
Shaken,
From the edge
Awaken,
To a destiny
Of a re-imagined, ledge.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Crocking clay formations
Breaking down, awake
Makes –
The chemistry of reason
Into a postulated, lake.

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

Beyond –
Our belief
In the recess,
Of time

Is a whispered –
Relief
In a shared meaning,
Of mind.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

A pinprick
Of wisdom
A faint, unrefined

An emotional, reaction
To a strange something
Undefined.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

The West side
Of history
Looks back, to the East
Accumulating, discovery
It seeks –
Its release.