Tag: planets
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Black as loathing beholder
Seven years with Calypso in Ogygia for lost Odysseus, longing Ithaca Screen for eclipse that weaved dream Midnight Font delighting all believers All creeds heeded Fed by heathen light Shed by freezing stars, clothed in illusory flames Distances of ages betwixt. Seven planets willed into the crypt of the void Rilled moon life-devoid, former ocean…
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Model Not Territory
Ptolemy’s model followed geocentric principles Earth as sun centre around which spheres rotate uniformly as ships in typhoons, along circles split like zodiac glyphs At the epicentre the sun housing the earth Divinely plotted prescribed orbits to fit solar alignments are called deferents These are fenced and intersected by smaller circular orbits called epicycles By…
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Crafting Stars
Why specialise, obtain special eyes We need fewer yous and more like Is Isis the typist her husband the sunrise Highly prized the nicest jewel the nightsky’s Gygaxian dice toss, galaxian price loss Market drops on Neptune’s frost Ogygian guises and the feathers of Thoth. I need the heat I’m a desert sapper I’m ombrophobic,…
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Porkies
The human element of the scientific apparatus, like Shem seeking Sheol, will pile pork upon their plates.
Alchemisland 