First Light Machine

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.

Credit: SA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum

Night time labyrinths
In the shade of the sublime
Creates an angle of deep resonance
With the erosion, of pure time.

Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), MMTO

goodbye
old friend
is this really the end?

why don’t
you stay
and never go away,

for never
is certain
to come again.

Comet 17P/Holmes >>>

Credit: MPL 3D

Forever wonder
Of worlds not seen
And forever tumble
In a world
Of dreams.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Silence stalks
A forgotten sound
Softly searching for
A place of ground.

Silent statements
Of a secret found
Softly touches
Your upside down.

Less than a degree >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

sub hemispheres
close to here
release the flows
of silent woes
and ancient secrets
and ancient answers
no one knows.

Craters >>>

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

A virtuoso
performance
with an
unnaturally sharp
charm
is an attempted
denial
of nature’s
instinctual intent
to harm.

Collision >>>