First Light Machine

Credit: Rolando Ligustri (CARA Project, CAST)

sweeping ever slowly
though a daylight of dreams
the broken lonely soldier
creates a balance
through extremes

its point of translocation
from its whitewashed
streaked streams
is a fated destination for
it’s shining white screams.

Credit: Ivo Alfonso

Tracking down a witness
By tracing through a thought –

Are entangled correlations
To find what time has wrought.

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

Rivers of color
Flowing true, and in form

Reflect a control
Through a calm, chaotic storm

Waves of rich wonder
So completely, transformed

Drapes a darkened veil
On ideas, that don’t conform.

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.