First Light Machine

Credit: Dr. Don Goldman (Astrodon Imaging)

A double down signal
A core flash –
In the dark

A magnetic culmination
Set free –
From its spark.

Credit: Koichi Wakata (NASA/Reuters)

Breathing in a vision
By breaking back the sky
A spiritually sober moment
Then asks the question, why?

Sensing the faintest wisdom
When reaching through its lie
A logically somber moment
Then slips, and says goodbye.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

sublimation sleds
down the edge
of dark waves

by carving a carbon thread
down the ledge
of times grave.

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

The signal, for ascension
When seen, from above
Contrasts, with pure reason
When compared, to true love.

Credit: Ian Sharp

A second of wonder
A flicker of might
The eerie dark motion
That moves dawn into night.

The point of transcendence
When timed by sight
Recaptures the essence
That breaks dusk into light.

Credit: Dr. Don Goldman

ghosts
within you
are a collision of views

and the spirits
of haze
are defined by their rage

in the moment
when it’s realized
what they do.

Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA

deep in the dark
distant shadows
where the search
for our origin
stays hidden,
we uncover a cache
of new questions
but no answers
about why
it’s forbidden.

Credit & Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera

Looking out
And then in
An arc of vision
So thin
It curves in motion
And spin
To shade our essence
Of sin.

Credit & Copyright: Al Howard

Rising high
Through the night
An arcing contact
Shines so bright
And bears a witness
Through its sight
A closing angle
To the light.