First Light Machine

I pierce – through my center
And pry – in unknowns
As I seek – my unsomethings
And think – all alone.

S Monocerotis >>

 

Vibrantly, variable
Violently, vast
Visually, vacant
Is the present –
As past.

Verge of supernova >>

 

Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA; Processing & Copyright: Francesco Antonucci

Trailing away
From bright impacts, of spray
Are the moments –
Of an unsculpted
Array.

NGC 1893 >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Amir H. Abolfath (TWAN)

Obscured, scattered visions
From the edge,
To its out

Assures, bold collisions
From the inside,
Of doubt.

Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: Hubble: NASA/STScI; Infrared: Spitzer: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Creatures of thought
Through infrared sight

Are troubled
And fraught
And burned, through their bright.

NGC 602 >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm

Recaptured, electrons
Reflected, through dust
Protects, a proto vision
Through their chariots –
Of rust.

AE Aurigae >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Josep Drudis

A single stage reaction
Streams –
Its measured gains

By framing pure abstraction
Through its telescopic –
Skeins.

Southern Tadpoles >>

 

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

Raging through the darkness
Through the swaths
Of sharp ringshine

The mind re-blends its starkness
And adopts –
Its pure divine.

Night side >>

 

Credit: NASA, SOFIA, HAWC+; JPL-Caltech, Roma Tre. U.; ESA, Hubble, NuSTAR, SDSS

We see the terror
We feel its pain
We see the horrid
Hiding –
Within its miserable shame.

We see the wicked
And take its blame
As we are the punishment
Striking –
Behind its dust defined flame.

Airborne SOFIA >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Amir H. Abolfath (TWAN)

Look closer –
And you find
A complex balance, intertwined
Within a nature
That’s just naturally,
Undefined.

Ends at the Hyades >>