First Light Machine

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: NASA/CXC/NCSU/M.Burkey et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech

White dwarfs pull
At the edges
Of a shadow, unbound

Revealing its trigger
Its motion
Its light echo, background

Marking its power
Of origin
Waiting, to be found.

Credit: NASA, Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI)

I watch
For a signal
I search
For a sign
I listen
For that moment
When my soul learns
To shine.

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: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI

A complexity in waves
A compilation of signs
An aesthetic reaction
To our moments –
In time.

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: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute

The backlight, of memory
Within a crescent –
Silhouette

Reveals the simple, in transcendence
And makes the complex –
Perfect.