First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

The eye of the master
That hides in the night
Is powered by thoughts
That follow its sight.

The knowns that comes faster
Through a strengthening might
Is sought by the challenge
Of the dark, to be light.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ITA/INAF/J.Merten et al, Lensing: NASA/STScI; NAOJ/Subaru; ESO/VLT, Optical: NASA/STScI/R.Dupke

Reaching back in time
Seeking an equation
Searching secret signals
In sector dark –
Annihilation.

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: Bursov et al.

The blink of a sound
From a signal spike knife
Invokes machinations
On the origins –
Of life.

Credit: Optical Society of America

The negative, of night
An inverse, effect
A quantum, correlation
Of a shadow-like, silhouette.

Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project
Acknowledgment: G. Li Causi, IAPS/INAF

The tail of the snake
Shakes
In the cold dust of history
It makes
A signature shine
Stirring, awake
Signaling a fractured
Moment –
That breaks.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Jennifer Lotz (STScI)

A gravitied distance
A magnified flight
A captured re-memory
In the darkness –
Of light.

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: Josh Smith

The breaks of a halo
The slight, in its feint
Reveals the power, of structure
And the signal –
In restraint.