First Light Machine

Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh

A single point of motion
From a helium fusion shield
Is the answer, in a question
From its complex –
Radiant field.

Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA)

Mythical mysteries
Of confounding,
Dark scales

Strikes through
Its long history
Through compounding, contrails.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

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

Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann

Flashes of color
Unplan –
To create

Rebranding their construct
To withstand –
Their new state.

Credit & Copyright: Bray Falls

Prominent glows
Of electron shows
Strike the ionized atoms –
Of re-configured
Re-flows.

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán Doran

Rivers –

Of swirling air
Envelope our visions
And enrapture our dreams

Evolving –

To be a witness
To moving layers
Of shadow streams.

Credit & Copyright: Chuck Ayoub

Energized rims
Of collapsing detail
Re-forms a new boundary
Through its radiated, veil.

Credit & Copyright: Tian Lee

A brightening edge folds itself –

From the nothing
Into something
From the darkness
Into light
From the shadow
Into showing

The ancient spark,
Of burning night.