First Light Machine

Credit: Illustration by Moonrunner Design Ltd., National Geographic

An elementary field
Too unseen to be
Is defined by the energy
That now sets it free.

Credit: NASA/ESA, Hubble Heritage, STScl/AURA

A reference in time
Is determined to find
A detection
That signals
Our mind.

Credit: NASA / Don Pettit

raining
in color
from blackness
to bright
is the eclipse
in our vision
as morning
becomes night.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Linda Morgan-O’Connor

The inverse hues of life
detail the shadows
the gentle moving arcs
of spacious fabric
repeatedly retorn.

The exhale breath in life
in cosmic shadows
of gentle moving arcs
brilliantly colored
are repeatedly reborn.

Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

blue speck glitter
undetermined
unrefined and unkempt
insolent by design
unchallenged in time

discovers its red dot existence
unrehearsed
unknown and misunderstood
a certain sublime
of a logically negative sign.

Credit: NASA / SPACE X

within the crack
of the dragon’s fire
we reach the moment
of our desperate desire
and touch the edge
of what to, we aspire.

The silence in sound
Shrouds an ancient ground
Untouched and sublime
Unmoved, in our time
Ever reaching
To touch
The profound.

Credit: NASA/JPL Space Science Institute

an increased reduction
in the motion of mass
details the construction
of a theoretical
crevasse.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Dwek and R. Arendt

I navigate my wonder
I surf the timeless sea
I wander in infinity
In a hope to be, set free.

I memorize the future
To forget what my past did see
I whisper to my master
For a wish that cannot be.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

A phantom look
A saintly feel
A delicate balance
Is what defines
Surreal.