Nocturne for the Smoke Ceiling That No Longer Forms

Four pale columns rise from the dark lower register and turn sideways beneath a dense woven ceiling. A fifth unravels before reaching it. The broad band records inversion as pressure rather than sky, while the excised section at right breaks smoke, contour, and archive at once. Four gold stitches attend that break without repairing it. Below, three arrows remain caught in a damaged circle, preserving direction after the still air has gone. The single coral tick measures the warmer nights that made this small winter ceiling returnless.