First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Scarred.
Collapsed from within
A shaken, cold skin
Stays silent –
As a connected
Tholin.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

A shaped –
Snowcapped signature
Within a window, of time

Breaks an edge –
Snowswept perimeter
That defines, its decline.