Poetry & art Darklight: full artwork and technical description below.
The dream began with a melody,
an unsteady pulse.
Time was a pale mist,
a lazy shoal of raindrops.
I journeyed to another world,
and night gave way to sunlight
that trickled like honey.
A trail of feathers,
coarsely woven
scraps of cloth,
and tiny
bleached
bones,
led me
to a windswept desertscape
where time phased and dephased
through the tangles and green sails
of the flourishings and fades—
the great cycles, the interlinked
traceries of cause-and-effect
made visible in my reverie.
Coming in 2026, The Origins of Time: Where does time come from? Will my time machine work? What did Einstein get wrong about time? And much more, all with clear, commonsense explanations and diagrams.
Out now, illustrated poetry collection Texture of Silence, a collaboration with Eugen Bacon, and Purpose of Reality, illustrated collections of poetry and stories in two volumes from Meerkat Press.
artwork
Darklight from my Beyond AI Project. Existing textures enhanced by AI’s StableDiffusion with EasyDiffusion run from an AutoIt3 script (ControlNet dominates). Eight-hour runtime on an NVidiaGeForce RTX4070 Ti Super graphics card. Evolved by the Visual Evolution Engine, my software that seeks unimagined realms, with cyclic nonlinear desaturation, ultracubism, and adaptive layered image synthesis. Art and poetry also on Instagram.
