Landing is necessary
Leaping is necessary

Needles that give evidence are necessary
Baskets and hands are necessary

Mesh web interweave
Globe cloud gouache
1.8 micro seconds
Semantic arguments
Hairsplitting
Thanksgiving
Mimosa migration
Locum lapidem
Surface shadow
Monkfish hood
One foot in terra
The other in trema
All necessary

Etchings like the markings on a face
Chiselled by wind, necessary

So bring me down again, and fly my love
My lips on yours, necessary

Sampurna Chattarji

Andreas Albrecht, Perspektive (Nürnberg: Paulus Fürsten, 1621), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, T 122, folded page.

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Judith Albert

Spoon eyes infinity
Star shoots cannonball
Girl skirts skeleton
Magnet sails stone

Words doing words
Unbutton slowly
This bed will travel far

Sampurna Chattarji

A magnetic globe with pointers (versoria). Versoria are needles that give evidence to the lines of magnetic force of that globe. [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28,  p. 13.

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Judith Albert

Barbara Ellmerer

Georg Agricola (1494–1555), Vom Bergwerck (Basel: Jeronymus Froben und Niclausen Bischoff, 1557), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, ZB Res 321, p. 105.