First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI

A complexity in waves
A compilation of signs
An aesthetic reaction
To our moments –
In time.

Credit: Ezequiel Etcheverry

An inverted chaos
Trembles
As it breaks
And shakes,
Foundations

Of unknown meanings
By way of distortion
Sensing weakness
An unsure uniqueness,
Of timing

And a moving line of attack
Indefensible
By way of shadow
An inverted outflow,
Of silence

And darkness
Surrounded by cold
Within the emptiness
And complete elusiveness,
Of everything.

Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute

The backlight, of memory
Within a crescent –
Silhouette

Reveals the simple, in transcendence
And makes the complex –
Perfect.

Credit & Copyright: Josh Smith

The breaks of a halo
The slight, in its feint
Reveals the power, of structure
And the signal –
In restraint.

Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh

Faint start streams
From an intellect, of means
Paints a vision,
Of beauty
Through a schism,
Of duty
About an answer
To the meaning
In our dreams.