First Light Machine

Credit: Data – Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), R. Colombari, Processing – Roberto Colombari

I’m in
Then out
Then up and about

I spin
I shake
I’m always awake

I’m clear
With fear
But cannot yet hear

The sound
That’s around

My heart
My soul
My reason
My role

For when
I am finally
Found.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SETI Institute

sinking
i feel the vertical
horizontally
i drop, going forward
into the present of past
into the front of time
quicker
as i move slower

seeking the essence of what
it means
to be
me.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

A diverse composition
A layerd, effect
Reflect apparitions
Of a timeless –
Respect.

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: 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.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

The density of heat
Within a radiated shell
Determines the status
Of present,
By reforming
The presence
Of hell.

Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (IAA, Spain); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

A luminous brilliance
A cathedral of shine
A signature of substance
Where reality –
Is defined.