Micrographia: Redacted poem
Robert Hooke’s 1665 “Micrographia” redacted into a poem about the Feb. 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor. (For the redaction, I used “Extracts from Micrographia,” a 1906 reprint for ease of reading.)
—tychogirl
Through binoculars / I leave my narrow world for / an ocean of stars.
