First Light Machine

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.

Credit & Copyright: Federico Pelliccia

Through the eye
Of our history
We struggle to free,
The presence of meaning
From the answers,
We see.

Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

A dynamical history
A reduction, of form
A continued collusion
Through abduction, by storm.

Credit: Y. Hezaveh (Stanford) et al., ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

On course distortions
Of direct,
Dispersed source
Distracts from the motions
Of indirect,
Produced force.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

Expanse
In a trance
Within a relative glance,
Exists
In a vacuum,
Of chance.