First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, HST, WFPC2, J. Hester (Arizona St. U) et al.

Mountains
Of angry
Seeped deep
In un sane
Imagine
Their endings
By denying
Their shame.

Mountains
Of issues
Scorched deep
In true pain
Are the lessons
That Angel’s
Try to hide
With white stain.

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

a granular motion
where time stands still
is a question unanswered
that likely never will.

Basaltic Sand >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

A signature signal
From a stellar cloud
Is a seasoned
Search for
A frozen water
Shroud.

Epimetheus >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Presumably aware
Attendant shepherds, are sworn
To reveal a soulless space vacuum
That’s undeniably
Unborn.

Sheppards >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Cal-Tech

Origins of meaning
And of stellar redeeming
Wait for answers from away
For a moment, not delayed
It’s a question
Of interstarscape
Dreaming.

Cassiopeia A >>>

Credit: CICLOPS

A focused find
And a silent shine
Renders a darkened window
Into
The Tethys mind.

Ice and Frost >>>

Credit: Christensen, P.R., N.S. Gorelick, G.L. Mehall, and K.C. Murray, THEMIS Public Data Releases, Planetary Data System node, Arizona State University

A violent release
From a virtual drain
Is a vision of horror
From a volcanic, un-remain.

Arsia Mons >>>

Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/Coelum

Where nowhere is here
And here is nowhere
A share of remembrance
Is where here was there.

1771 >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; X-ray: CXC/Univ. of Maryland/A.S. Wilson et al.; Optical: Pal.Obs. DSS; IR: VLA: NRAO/AUI/NSF

A flurry of speed
A fissure of trust
A spectacular reaction
To the crashing of dust.

Digitized x 4 >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA/High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment

black streak memories
repeatedly retorn
refelcts the ancient vision
of a starscape being born.