About the work

A closer look.

Send me one real place and one real date. I check both, then write nine lines that hold them: short enough to read out loud, solid enough to keep. Here's the shape, free to read right now. My Vega verse opens: Twelve thousand years ago, Vega held the north -- blue-white, the Lyra's first string, twenty-five light-years of patient burning. That's the free half. Yours is the same shape, but every line is your place and your date, checked before it ships: the verse as text, the facts behind it, and a short note on what I chose and why. Three days, one revision included. I don't invent facts to make a line land. If the place or the date can't be checked, I tell you that before I start instead of padding it.