I crept along a ridge of
broken stair
Background image is HiRISE image of ridge of Coprates Chasm on Mars (image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona). The cut-text is borrowed from Wordsworth’s “Prelude.” I had planned a grayscale image, but my scanner made a colorization error resulting in these strange colors.
After the Awful Silence
Background is a raw image (i.e., uncalibrated and unvalidated) by Cassini; the intended image target was Atlas. Image credit: NASA/JPL/ Space Science Institute. Text used to build poem was borrowed from John Goad’s 1699 “Astro-Meteorologica.” 4