the shy moon

Haiku typed onto a sliver of a moon image from “Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy” (1848).

To Young Girls. remember the sky will not always be blue

Cut text from various out-of-print sources. Background image is from “Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy” (1848).

still haunts me

A memorial piece for Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White who perished in a fire on January 27, 1967.

she wanders out

Cut text from various old out-of-copyright texts pasted onto background image from an 1666 text by Roberte Hooke and Giovanni Cassini.

thank you Cassini

Haiku I wrote for my 5,000th tweet honoring the Cassini mission to Saturn. The haiku uses text from Christaan Huygens’ “Celestial Worlds” (1698). The wavy background made from picture of kimono fabric.

I wonder how many girls tell their mothers

Cut text from a number of out-of-copyright sources. Black-and-white drawing of Mars is by Percival Lowell (from Lowell’s “Mars,” 1895).

a little bit of poetry

Text from “The Dublin University Magazine” (1849) redacted into a poem.

she on the periphery

Image of the Apollo 4 Mission Control Room on November 9, 1967.

I want to watch the sunrise

Fragments of text taken from the Apollo 17 voice transcripts; this section of the transcripts includes Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt witnessing sunrise in Earth orbit.

Artist Not Muse #1

Cut text from the 1811 “The Exhibition: A Poem” pasted onto the wood frame of a canvas. Background image from an old woodprint.