The Draftsmans Burden — Patent No. 314559 Table_of_Elements its prominences and sunspots cataloged

its prominences and sunspots cataloged with the feverish devotion of an age that watched Venus cross the solar disc and called it scripture

mailed between saltwater and smokestack

Every traced cone of darkness here feels less like astronomy than liturgy

with the keeper's hexagonal cottage perched mid-air like a lantern in a cage

frigid orbits

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