(Hart Crane, “The Broken Tower”)
black
Observatory:
with the reflector aimed inward.
Light-bearing
Frieze
To clear vision
Night advance
White source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, 1908. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014680170/. Image restored in Photoshop.
Imperial reflection
Antwerp
This thought might lead me through the world’s vain mask
Milton, “To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness.” “Mask” means masque, a kind of drama typically performed by aristocratic amateurs in lavish costumes.