First Light Machine

Credit: ERICH SCHREMPP via Getty Images

A mosaic of color
A reflection of space
A brave new idea
For how time –
Ran its race.

Credit & Copyright: Jim Lafferty

a long light
filament
at its maximum
decay
delights our inner
rapture
through its dark plasma
spray.

Credit & Copyright: Dr. Don Goldman

A signal ascension
Of an energy
Re-framed

Reverses the revision
Of a narrowband
Aflame.

Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin

Apparition logic
Incantation true
Apostolic whispers
Within the ghost – of you.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope

Arcing interstellar bow waves
Grind themselves
Releasing their innocence
Deterring a hated future of insecurity
Rapidly unleashing a forgotten energy
Slowly, blending unseen colors
Derive a fancy, forgotten sound
Determined to unseal a magic
A moment of instant clarity
A burst of energetic wonder
And a known end to an unknown moment
Searching for meaning
Wishing for guidance
On a path to relevance.

Credit: Image Data: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope,
Additional Color Data and Processing: Robert Gendler

Streaky luminous shock waves
From a bright blue light
Campaign

Finds a newfound homeland
In a dark silhouetted
Domain.

Credit: simonsfoundation.org

A hard cardinal number
Of infinite shape and
Size

Is an imaginary window
Into a true mathematical
Lie.

Credit: Data – Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing – Roberto Colombari

The vision variable
In the far away, near
Reaps a measured distance
In an attempt, to be clear.

The voraciousness value
Of a distant, frontier
Releases a measured vision
As a light, reflected year.

Credit: Martin Pugh (Heaven’s Mirror Observatory)

Cataclysmic moments
Of freighting
Strength and zeal

Delivers the after forever
Re-branding a collapsed stars
Ordeal.