First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI)

I watch
For a signal
I search
For a sign
I listen
For that moment
When my soul learns
To shine.

Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project
Acknowledgment: G. Li Causi, IAPS/INAF

The tail of the snake
Shakes
In the cold dust of history
It makes
A signature shine
Stirring, awake
Signaling a fractured
Moment –
That breaks.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Jennifer Lotz (STScI)

A gravitied distance
A magnified flight
A captured re-memory
In the darkness –
Of light.

Credit & Copyright: Howard Hedlund & Dave Jurasevich, Las Campanas Obs.

Waves of debris
Coded by change
Rolls into ripples
Along –
It’s true range.

Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI

A complexity in waves
A compilation of signs
An aesthetic reaction
To our moments –
In time.

Credit: Ezequiel Etcheverry

An inverted chaos
Trembles
As it breaks
And shakes,
Foundations

Of unknown meanings
By way of distortion
Sensing weakness
An unsure uniqueness,
Of timing

And a moving line of attack
Indefensible
By way of shadow
An inverted outflow,
Of silence

And darkness
Surrounded by cold
Within the emptiness
And complete elusiveness,
Of everything.

Credit & Copyright: Josh Smith

The breaks of a halo
The slight, in its feint
Reveals the power, of structure
And the signal –
In restraint.

Credit: Data – Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), R. Colombari, Processing – Roberto Colombari

I’m in
Then out
Then up and about

I spin
I shake
I’m always awake

I’m clear
With fear
But cannot yet hear

The sound
That’s around

My heart
My soul
My reason
My role

For when
I am finally
Found.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SETI Institute

sinking
i feel the vertical
horizontally
i drop, going forward
into the present of past
into the front of time
quicker
as i move slower

seeking the essence of what
it means
to be
me.

Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI),
C. R. O’Dell (Vanderbilt U.), NASA

A bow wave of solitude
An atmosphere, of truth
A conduit for the beautiful
Within the nourishment, of youth.