First Light Machine

Credit & Copyright: Sage Gray

Breaking back the darkness
The now,
Becomes the then
As it breaks beyond its spark
The hidden how,
Repeats again.

Oceanus Procellarum >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/UChicago

Wind worn glides
Of flowing try
Turning here,
To there, a gleam –
Long since sought
To there, a stream

Sailing empty
Through wondering sky
To subtle jetties,
Of methane air –
Riding through
Till no, till there

Notions of what
Or what may why
Under the cracked,
And deepening pool –
Meandering true
So dark, and cool

A winded wrinkle
Wrankle awry
Under a surface
Of wind swept time –
Spreads, its out
As a ragged, old sign.

Riverbeds >>

 

Hat tip: Robert Lewis Stevenson “Looking-Glass River”

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI

Unexpectedly, symmetrical
And unusually, complete
An outflow,
Beams syntactical
As its symbiots –
Accrete.

Bipolar hourglass >>

 

Credit: Nasa / Cal-Tech / Univ. of Arizona

Marching through the ridges
Riding down their sides
Directs a retro guidance
Into a port, tact, glide.

Alluvial >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

Vanishing visions
Decide my role
Through varying vapors
Aside –
My soul.

Sunlit horizon >>

 

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-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Baskets, of ejecta
Redirect –
And ablate

A scarp, of exposure
And its strength –
To create.

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

Forever dreams,
Of distant beams
Riding away,
Over slow decay

We know not,
The parting air

Of our despair
Of a silent sigh
And quiet –
Slow goodbye.

Receding crescent >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The darkness, of white
Tops sheathed, in black bright
Streak –
Through the shadows, to break free
And take flight.

Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA)

Mythical mysteries
Of confounding,
Dark scales

Strikes through
Its long history
Through compounding, contrails.