First Light Machine

Texture, color, theme
Or a dream
The natural scene
On what makes, beauty –
To mean.

Unaltered mafics >>

 

Well developed networks
And cold remembered trails
Defines incised blue valleys
Through –
Enigmatic precise details.

Late stage habitability >>

 

Striations, of silica
Combine, to construe
A motion, of chaos
That dances –
On through.

Galle crater >>

 

Static, deposits
In thin, layered frames
Fold, into colored
Re-structured,
Dark flames.

Candor Chasma >>

 

We motion our intentions
We marshal through our minds
We take inferred abstentions
From the things –
We fear to find.

Uzboi Vallis >>

 

Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA

Windblown visions
Of a spiking, blue fade
Re-images, its planum
Through a striking –
Of shade.

Ares 3 >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Depths of suggestion
Through a fragment false,
Face –
Finds its intention
In true detachment free,
Grace.

Central uplift >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

A connection –
A moment that awakes
The sense of self

Of a reflection
That makes
A certainty
An awareness of now

In the present
Of a here,
For the taking.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

A shadow cast
Of a foreshadowed event
Looses information
Through its contrary, ascent.

Intent –
On laying waste
To an altered, dissent.