sextant · half-arc · ivory scale
hand-sized, made for a hand that is gone. it measures the angle between a thing and the line where things rest — the sea, the horizon, the windowsill. it does not say what to do with the answer.
its mirrors are a little tarnished. its scale is in degrees that no longer match the maps. the small telescope at the side is for the same star you have already looked at without it.
field-note · sight the room across the diagonal. the room is 47° wider than the door says.
compass · moon · lighthouse · road