First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

The eye of the master
That hides in the night
Is powered by thoughts
That follow its sight.

The knowns that comes faster
Through a strengthening might
Is sought by the challenge
Of the dark, to be light.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Far across a background
Playing seek and hide
A world peeks for a moment
Then sneaks backwards –
To its stride.

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: 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 & Copyright: Josh Smith

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

Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh

Faint start streams
From an intellect, of means
Paints a vision,
Of beauty
Through a schism,
Of duty
About an answer
To the meaning
In our dreams.

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.