The Local Merger

Cut text from the 1910 “The Galaxy: A Magazine of Literature, Volume 3, Issue 10” pasted onto kimono fabric graphic.

space that neither I nor words grasp

Cut text from an old Sir Walter Scott piece borrowed for a poem. I pasted this text onto a B&W version of a Hubble photo of the center of the Milky Way. Hubble image credit: NASA, ESA, and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

uninterrupted arch

Text from “The Galaxy: A Magazine of Literature, Volume 2, Issue 2” (1908) borrowed for a new poem. The background image is a 19th century German map.