First Light Machine

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

A pinprick
Of wisdom
A faint, unrefined

An emotional, reaction
To a strange something
Undefined.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Layers
Of history,
Deeply extend

The sense
Of adventure,
On the road
To the end.

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/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/SRI

within layers of haze
and back looking
shine

is a startling reminder
from of where
we divine.