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: Ezequiel Etcheverry

An inverted chaos
Trembles
As it breaks
And shakes,
Foundations

Of unknown meanings
By way of distortion
Sensing weakness
An unsure uniqueness,
Of timing

And a moving line of attack
Indefensible
By way of shadow
An inverted outflow,
Of silence

And darkness
Surrounded by cold
Within the emptiness
And complete elusiveness,
Of everything.

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 & 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.

Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann

A red light emission
Burns bright
And stays true
To a dense deep
Admission
That stays tight –
To fates view.

Credit: Bob and Janice Fera – Feraphotography.com

Cold
And alone
A captured shimmer, of home

In the depths
Of time
Within a frozen, sublime

Is a voice
So distant
Its gone, in an instant

And an silence
So loud
It thunders through, its cold shroud.