First Light Machine

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.

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.