First Light Machine

Breaking its wavelength
Ghosting its sight
Bathing in brilliance
Is its moment, of might.

52,000 parsecs >>

 

Falling in –
Spinning
Spiraling in trails of wonder

Felled, into my inner deep blackness
Measured in years of light
And in streams of conscious awakening

I’m pulled through time
An inescapable reality
Into a now –
Of ever present
Meaning.

1054 >>

 

A degradation signal
In a timescale shaking wave
Breaks its solar dominion
To cheat –
Its telemetry grave.

Voyager 1 >>

 

A thread of heavens woven cloth
Enraptured with its might
A misty red and soggy froth
Captures – it’s true fight.

Spread and splashed with flowing haste
Throughout its mystic night
It asks for nothing from its host
To brave – its present plight.

Bok Globule >>

 

Second perspectives
Of surface,
Detail

Elevates –

A respective
Tharsis wide,
Scale.

Tithonium Chasmata >>

 

Into the darkness
Into the blind
Into the nothing
That shows you –
Its mind.

James Webb >>

 

Telescopic skyscapes
Flashing –
With rage

Define broken time shapes
Crashing –
Our stage.

Northern Cross >>

 

IDL TIFF file

Screams of nature
Howling with rage
Shaking in anger
In a teeming –
Rampage.

V838 >>

 

Squaring, daring
A steely staring
Equally fairing,
Through their time locked –
Pairing.

NGC 6188 >>

 

Black, inside out
White, outside in
Motion, into nothing
Is the question –
From within.

Seven Sisters >>