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).

we are silent now

Words on a page of Percival Lowell’s 1895 “Mars” borrowed for a haiku. The background is fibered Japanese paper.  This effort was a dry-run practice for writing a few haikus for the Mars MAVEN haiku contest (which closes on June 30, 2013).

I hazard the fragments

“The Mechanic’s Magazine,” Volume 57, redacted into a poem. The graphic hiding the text in the left column is a figure showing asteroid distances from the sun (from Percival Lowell’s “Saturn’s Rings: A Memoir.”)