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after Annie Jump Cannon’s spectral star classification system (OBAFGKM)

I’d rather feel the heft of a photographic plate, watch silver salts precipitate the split light of stars, spectral bands confessing the gas and ore of my glittering valves and ventricles. I can’t say what goes on in my sleep, but when I wake? My mind reaches out, not inward, for its bearings. As if whatever grounds me draws from a great distance.